{"id":6127,"date":"2013-07-09T23:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T05:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2013-07-09T23:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T05:06:37","slug":"abraham-lincoln-patent-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6127","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lincoln &#8212; Patent Prosecutor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51bwfzfp58l_sy346_pjlook-inside-v2topright10_sh20_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6130\" title=\"51bwfzfp58l_sy346_pjlook-inside-v2topright10_sh20_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51bwfzfp58l_sy346_pjlook-inside-v2topright10_sh20_1.jpg\" alt=\"51bwfzfp58l_sy346_pjlook-inside-v2topright10_sh20_1\" width=\"211\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/51bwfzfp58l_sy346_pjlook-inside-v2topright10_sh20_1.jpg\"><\/a>I was reading the book &#8220;Lincoln the Inventor&#8221; over the holiday weekend. \u00a0One of the interesting tidbits from the book is that in 1848 Abraham Lincoln called on the Patent Office on at least two separate occasions on behalf of two different inventors. [<a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/l\/lincoln\/lincoln1\/1:477?rgn=div1;singlegenre=All;sort=occur;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;q1=patent\">Link<\/a>] and [<a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/l\/lincoln\/lincoln1\/1:482?rgn=div1;singlegenre=All;sort=occur;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;q1=patent\">Link<\/a>]. So, that begs the question: \u00a0Can we now add &#8220;Patent Prosecutor&#8221; to President Lincoln&#8217;s esteemed list of accomplishments? \u00a0A bit of a stretch, perhaps. \u00a0But, you can form your own opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the book &#8220;Lincoln the Inventor&#8221; over the holiday weekend. \u00a0One of the interesting tidbits from the book is that in 1848 Abraham Lincoln called on the Patent Office on at least two separate occasions on behalf of two different inventors. [Link] and [Link]. So, that begs the question: \u00a0Can we now add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6127"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}