{"id":136512,"date":"2022-02-20T13:12:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=136512"},"modified":"2022-02-20T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:12:43","slug":"bits-of-wisdom-from-abraham-lincoln-for-presidents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=136512","title":{"rendered":"Bits of Wisdom from Abraham Lincoln for Presidents Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bits of Wisdom from our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln for Presidents Day.  Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809 \u2013 April 15, 1865<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Lincoln\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn&#8217;t have the heart to let him down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That&#8217;s my religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bits of Wisdom from our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln for Presidents Day. Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809 \u2013 April 15, 1865 \u201cAmerica will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.\u201d \u201cThose who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves\u201d \u201cWhenever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136514,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136512\/revisions\/136514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}