{"id":134,"date":"2013-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/08\/14\/xpost-127-lincolns-pet-goat\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T00:00:00","slug":"xpost-127-lincolns-pet-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/14\/xpost-127-lincolns-pet-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-127: Lincoln&#8217;s Pet Goat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/lincolnscivilwar.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/08\/to-mary-todd-lincoln-2\/\">One-hundred and fifty years ago last week<\/a>, Lincoln wrote to his wife on a very unusual matter: A pet goat named Nanny had been milling around the White House, and had been kept as a pet, but had recently run away.\n<\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:left;\"><p>Executive Mansion, Washington, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 August 8, 1863. <\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>My dear Wife. <br \/><span><\/span>All as well as usual, and no particular trouble any  way. I put the money into the Treasury at five per cent, with the  previlege of withdrawing it any time upon thirty days\u2019 notice. I suppose  you are glad to learn this. Tell dear Tad, <strong>poor \u201cNanny Goat,\u201d is lost<\/strong>;  and Mrs. Cuthbert &amp; I are in distress about it. <strong>The day you left  Nanny was found resting herself, and chewing her little cud, on the  middle of Tad\u2019s bed. But now she\u2019s gone! The gardener kept complaining  that she destroyed the flowers, till it was concluded to bring her down  to the White House. This was done, and the second day she had  disappeared, and has not been heard of since. This is the last we know  of poor \u201cNanny\u201d.<\/strong><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span> The weather continues dry, and excessively warm here. [&#8230;.]<br \/><span style=\"\"><\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">I wonder where a runaway goat goes to?<\/p>\n<p><span>An Internet search says that the pet goat stayed in <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehousemuseum.org\/floor1\/east-room.htm\">the &#8220;East Room&#8221;<\/a> of the White House.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-hundred and fifty years ago last week, Lincoln wrote to his wife on a very unusual matter: A pet goat named Nanny had been milling around the White House, and had been kept as a pet, but had recently run away. Executive Mansion, Washington, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 August 8, 1863. My dear Wife. All as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}