{"id":2758,"date":"2014-04-21T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T15:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2014-04-21T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:52:47","slug":"tower-of-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"Tower of Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordstheatre.org\">Ford&#8217;s Theatre<\/a> this weekend, and to the Peterson House across the street, where President Lincoln died. It got me thinking about a lot of things: race, the presidency, safety, acting and spurs, to name a few. It got me thinking a lot more about archiving and the people behind it &#8212; who made the decision to save Lincoln&#8217;s clothes? The pillow with the blood? Bits of the nooses that were used to hang Booth&#8217;s coconspirators? Did someone sell those as souvenirs? And what about the things they didn&#8217;t save?<\/p>\n<p>On the way out, we passed the tower of books that had been written about Lincoln. I&#8217;d love to see towers of books on other subjects, too. Tea parties? Dreams?<a href=\"http:\/\/thewookieegunner.com\/2014\/04\/18\/star-wars-childrens-books-are-there-too-many\/\"> Star Wars<\/a>? (I will also note that I didn&#8217;t spy picture books on Lincoln in this stack, but that I didn&#8217;t obsessively search, so I will just trust they were in there somewhere\u2026.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2759\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2759\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2759\" title=\"IMG_1440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1440-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1440-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1440-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1440-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tower of Lincoln books<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to Ford&#8217;s Theatre this weekend, and to the Peterson House across the street, where President Lincoln died. It got me thinking about a lot of things: race, the presidency, safety, acting and spurs, to name a few. It got &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=2758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}