{"id":170,"date":"2015-01-12T00:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2015-01-12T00:52:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:52:33","slug":"if-lincoln-won-a-golden-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"If Lincoln won a Golden Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On June 16, 1858, at the statehouse in Springfield, Illinois, the Repubican delegatess selected Abraham Lincoln as their candidate for the U.S. Senate.\u00a0 His opponent would be the Democrat Stephen A. Douglas in an historic race.\u00a0 Accepting his nomination, Lincoln gave what is widely considered\u00a0one of this country&#8217;s\u00a0great speeches, featuring the much quoted &#8220;A house divided cannot stand&#8221; theme.\u00a0 Lincoln is remembered for his grasp of language and oratory in handling great issues and historic events.\u00a0 One can only wonder how he would stand up to accept a Golden Globe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine an acceptance corrupted by vanity and inanity\u2026.as at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. With apologies to Mr. Lincoln and his brilliant and courageous \u201chouse divided\u201d speech.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Lincoln-TT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-171 \" src=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Lincoln-TT-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lincoln TT\" width=\"276\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Lincoln-TT-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Lincoln-TT-1024x769.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Lincoln-TT.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026..<\/em>Gentlemen of the Convention.<\/p>\n<p>If we could first know <em>where<\/em> we are, and <em>whither<\/em> we are tending, we could then better judge <em>what<\/em> to do, and <em>how<\/em> to do it.\u2026A house divided against itself cannot stand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I accept this great honor with respects to my one room schoolhouse, the builder, the teacher, the janitor, the candles by which I read, the candle maker, the rails I split, the hardware store where I bought my long-handle ax, and, of course, my long-suffering wife Mary, not to mention\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 16, 1858, at the statehouse in Springfield, Illinois, the Repubican delegatess selected Abraham Lincoln as their candidate for the U.S. Senate.\u00a0 His opponent would be the Democrat Stephen A. Douglas in an historic race.\u00a0 Accepting his nomination, Lincoln gave what is widely considered\u00a0one of this country&#8217;s\u00a0great speeches, featuring the much quoted &#8220;A house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}