{"id":1427,"date":"2010-09-06T21:36:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T18:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/url\/7b78c1dbb35e813c8e9452b3b62948df#russeltarr"},"modified":"2010-09-06T21:36:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T18:36:29","slug":"obama-wrongly-attributes-quotes-on-his-new-oval-office-rug-to-martin-luther-king-and-abraham-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/obama-wrongly-attributes-quotes-on-his-new-oval-office-rug-to-martin-luther-king-and-abraham-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama wrongly attributes quotes on his new Oval Office rug to Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took Barack Obama 18 months to put his own stamp on The Oval Office but it appears he needs a history lesson about its new contents.<\/p>\n<p>The new rug adorning the famous floor, it was said, was woven with quotes from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n<p>But the quotations attributed to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King in the wheat-coloured carpet in fact came from reformist and abolitionist Theodore Parker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took Barack Obama 18 months to put his own stamp on The Oval Office but it appears he needs a history lesson about its new contents.<\/p>\n<p>The new rug adorning the famous floor, it was said, was woven with quotes from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n<p>But the quotations attributed to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King in the wheat-coloured carpet in fact came from reformist and abolitionist Theodore Parker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-n1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}