{"id":599,"date":"2015-09-27T15:41:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/?p=599"},"modified":"2015-09-27T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:41:26","slug":"essay-1860-in-springfield-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-1860-in-springfield-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSAY &#8211;1860 in Springfield, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Divided Project intern\u00a0Don Sailer produced a vivid description of the 1860 Election Day in Springfield, Illinois. \u00a0Sailer doesn&#8217;t mention this fact in his concise post, but Abraham Lincoln only barely won his hometown in 1860, prevailing over Stephen A. Douglas by about a mere 70 votes. \u00a0Lincoln actually lost the surrounding Sangamon County in both 1860 and 1864.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/23\/election-day-in-springfield-illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\">Election Day in Springfield, Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Divided Project intern\u00a0Don Sailer produced a vivid description of the 1860 Election Day in Springfield, Illinois. \u00a0Sailer doesn&#8217;t mention this fact in his concise post, but Abraham Lincoln only barely won his hometown in 1860, prevailing over Stephen A.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-1860-in-springfield-illinois\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119143,119161,23792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-era","category-campaigns-elections","category-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}