{"id":361,"date":"2009-10-05T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T03:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-10-05T20:51:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T03:51:48","slug":"abraham-lincoln-we-have-forgotten-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lincoln: We Have Forgotten God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Lincoln\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/44\/Abraham_Lincoln_head_on_shoulders_photo_portrait.jpg\/225px-Abraham_Lincoln_head_on_shoulders_photo_portrait.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a> &quot;We have been recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven.&#160; We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.&#160; We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God.&#160; We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Lincoln\" target=\"_blank\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a>, 16th President of the United States.&#160; From a proclamation issued March 30, 1863, for a national day of fasting and prayer to be observed on April 30, 1863, as quoted in <i>American Quotations<\/i>, p. 68.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:e324b4bf-6897-40da-b24d-ddc78770ab0f\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Freedom\" rel=\"tag\">Freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/God\" rel=\"tag\">God<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;We have been recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven.&#160; We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.&#160; We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,29],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-quote","tag-freedom","tag-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}