{"id":111168,"date":"2017-11-29T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:07:27","slug":"divided-speech-anniversary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/divided-speech-anniversary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;House Divided Speech&quot; Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_n0kOLTsDBsw\/Sjd_fshmy2I\/AAAAAAAAA1o\/bOtAJf66lSY\/s1600-h\/house-div-beg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"192\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347883265030540130\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/house-div-beg-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-111169\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 192px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Today  marks the 151st anniversary of one of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s most famous  speeches. His &#8220;House Divided&#8221; speech was given on this date in 1858 upon  his nomination as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>His  speech in which he proclaimed that a &#8220;house divided against itself  cannot stand&#8221; over the issue of slavery electrified his audience and  thrust him onto the national stage. Although Lincoln eventually lost the  election to the Senate to Stephen A. Douglas, the scene was set for his  election to the presidency in 1860.   The image above is of an original  newspaper report of the speech.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For a more thorough recounting of the &#8220;House Divided&#8221; speech, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/lincoln-behind-myths-house-divided.html\">here<\/a> to read my posting about it from this past January.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 151st anniversary of one of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s most famous speeches. His &#8220;House Divided&#8221; speech was given on this date in 1858 upon his nomination as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. His speech in which he proclaimed that a &#8220;house divided against itself cannot stand&#8221; over the issue of slavery electrified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}