{"id":4107,"date":"2026-04-14T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:29:55","slug":"abraham-lincoln-was-shot-in-1865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4107","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lincoln Was Shot in 1865"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8800 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg\" alt=\"Abraham Lincoln\" width=\"194\" height=\"239\" \/>Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1865<\/strong>. He was at Ford\u2019s Theatre in Washington, DC, to see a performance of &#8220;Our American Cousin.&#8221; He died the next day. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/civil\/jb_civil_lincoln_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lincoln<\/a>. They could also read <em>Chasing Lincoln&#8217;s Killer<\/em> by James L. Swanson. Children\u00a0could decide how the future of America would have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1865. He was at Ford\u2019s Theatre in Washington, DC, to see a performance of &#8220;Our American Cousin.&#8221; He died the next day. Children could learn more at: Lincoln. They could also read Chasing Lincoln&#8217;s Killer by James L. Swanson. Children\u00a0could decide how the future of America would have been different <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4107' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4565,1241,5472,2551,1566],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4565","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-april-14","tag-fords-theatre","tag-washington-dc","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29449,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/29449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}