{"id":92196,"date":"2017-11-29T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T20:55:10","slug":"update-lincoln-birthplace-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/update-lincoln-birthplace-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Lincoln Birthplace Memorial Remains Closed"},"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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n0kOLTsDBsw\/TFMEaxYwFsI\/AAAAAAAABIA\/QKOQMpnlE3g\/s1600\/lincoln+birthplace+memorial.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"341\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499744427929769666\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lincolnbirthplacememorial.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-92197\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; height: 341px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>Nearly  one year after renovations began on the building which enshrines  Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s symbolic birthplace cabin, it remains closed to  visitors. I originally posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/kentuckys-lincoln-birthplace-building.html\">article<\/a> in August 2009 which discussed the repairs which have been taking place  on the Memorial Building located in the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace  National Park, located near Hodgenville, KY.<\/div>\n<div>Now the <em>News-Enterprise<\/em> (Hardin County, KY) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewsenterprise.com\/cgi-bin\/c2.cgi?053+article+News.Local+20100729153350053053008\">reports<\/a> that the Memorial Building may not open until Labor Day this year.  Apparently the repairs to the century-old Memorial Building required  much more work than first estimated by engineers. Plaster in the ceiling  is being replaced, upgrades to the cooling and heating system have been  required, and a new skylight is being added to permit natural light.  The roof on the building is also being replaced. Original plans called  for the Memorial Building to be re-opened this past April.<\/div>\n<div>I wrote about this site in one of my first <a href=\"http:\/\/abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/lincoln-birthplace-national-historic.html\">posts<\/a> on The Abraham Lincoln Blog back in 2007. This cabin is certainly not  the one in which Lincoln was born. At best, it might contain a log or  two from the original one. The National Park Service does not hide the  fact that this cabin is not really the actual birthplace of Lincoln. The  story of this particular cabin is somewhat involved. You can read more  about it in the book &#8220;Lies Across America.&#8221;  Still, the cabin does gives  us an idea of how the original one probably appeared.<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post an update when the Memorial Building re-opens, hopefully in just a few more weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one year after renovations began on the building which enshrines Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s symbolic birthplace cabin, it remains closed to visitors. I originally posted an article in August 2009 which discussed the repairs which have been taking place on the Memorial Building located in the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Park, located near Hodgenville, KY. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92197,"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\/92196"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}