{"id":1687,"date":"2020-07-18T11:27:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2021-06-12T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T15:15:05","slug":"abraham-lincoln-technologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/18\/abraham-lincoln-technologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lincoln, Technologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2192\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Abraham-Lincoln-Technologist-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Abraham-Lincoln-Technologist-Fig2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Abraham-Lincoln-Technologist-Fig2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/strong>I thought there was nothing new we could learn about Abraham Lincoln, but I see I was quite mistaken after reading Sidney Blumenthal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2020\/07\/17\/abraham-lincoln-tech-entrepreneur\/\">article<\/a>,\u00a0 \u201cAbraham Lincoln, Tech Entrepreneur\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the current oppressive anti-science climate it is important to look back at our history and see how integral scientific thinking was to our founding and development.\u00a0 Not only were our Founding Fathers scientists, such as Jefferson and Franklin who with others founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743, but it turns out that President Abraham Lincoln could also lay claim to a scientific mind.\u00a0 Blumenthal\u2019s article describes in detail how Lincoln employed science to advance the development of our country.\u00a0 You should read the entire article, but I am including some highlights.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Abraham-Lincoln-Technologist-200717.pdf\">Abraham Lincoln Technologist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought there was nothing new we could learn about Abraham Lincoln, but I see I was quite mistaken after reading Sidney Blumenthal\u2019s article,\u00a0 \u201cAbraham Lincoln, Tech Entrepreneur\u201d. In the current oppressive anti-science climate it is important to look back at our history and see how integral scientific thinking was to our founding and development.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices","tag-abraham-lincoln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}