{"id":2385,"date":"2009-01-20T08:12:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T13:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2010-07-30T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T06:22:29","slug":"two-uus-at-the-lincoln-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"Two UUs at the Lincoln Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some trivia for you: As I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/18\/the-scene-at-the-lincoln-memorial\/\">&#8220;The Caucus Blog&#8221; report on the Opening Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial<\/a>, I realized that two Unitarian Universalists played a key role. (1) Unitarian Universalist singer-songwriter Pete Seeger sang all of Woody Guthrie&#8217;s verses to &#8220;This Land Is Your Land.&#8221; (2) Unitarian sculptor Daniel Chester French created the huge statue of Abraham Lincoln that kept a watchful eye on the proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some trivia for you: As I was reading &#8220;The Caucus Blog&#8221; report on the Opening Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, I realized that two Unitarian Universalists played a key role. (1) Unitarian Universalist singer-songwriter Pete Seeger sang all of Woody Guthrie&#8217;s verses to &#8220;This Land Is Your Land.&#8221; (2) Unitarian sculptor Daniel Chester French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-pete-seeger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7355,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/7355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}