{"id":159,"date":"2009-11-15T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T21:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-11-15T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T21:34:02","slug":"james-a-garfield-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"James A. Garfield, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:BKBySDzMTooFrM:http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/pnp\/cph\/3a50000\/3a53000\/3a53200\/3a53293r.jpg\" align=\"right\"> Yes, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about\/presidents\/JamesGarfield\/\">James A. Garfield<\/a>. A while ago, The Conlanging Librarian posted some information on <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=96\">James A. Garfield<\/a>. Well, something that many people don&#8217;t know about the man who would become the 20th President of the United States was that the courtship with his future wife, Lucretia &#8220;Crete&#8221; Rudolph, began (in a series of letters) as a back-and-forth discussion on the value of studying ancient languages and why the &#8220;diversity of languages was given&#8221;. You&#8217;ll now find relevant quotations from these letters, dating from January 1854, posted at <a href=\"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\">The Conlanger&#8217;s Library<\/a> in Quotations under <a href=\"\/quotations\/language.html\">Language<\/a> and <a href=\"\/quotations\/natlang.html\">Specific Natural Languages<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that James A. Garfield. A while ago, The Conlanging Librarian posted some information on James A. Garfield. Well, something that many people don&#8217;t know about the man who would become the 20th President of the United States was that the courtship with his future wife, Lucretia &#8220;Crete&#8221; Rudolph, began (in a series of letters) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28,22],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-additions","tag-garfield","tag-quotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}