{"id":1001,"date":"2004-07-05T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/the_art_of_political_rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2004-07-05T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T17:58:07","slug":"the_art_of_political_rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/the_art_of_political_rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Political Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today C-Span2 rebroadcast a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanstore.com\/181864.html\">Sam Waterston reenactment<\/a> of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/abelincolncooperunionaddress.htm\">1860 Cooper Union address<\/a>.  The anti-slavery speech, delivered 27 February 1860 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, is claimed to have propelled Lincoln to the presidency that year.<br \/>\nAt the end of the performance, Waterston said it had been planned as an &#8220;experiment&#8221; and wanted feedback?  Why?  To see how a modern audience could handle a political speech of yore.  Back in that day political speeches were a form of entertainment.  Lincoln&#8217;s speech alone lasted over 1 1\/2 hours, in an evening that included at least three other speakers.<br \/>\nQuite a contrast from today.  Can you imagine a modern presidential candidate giving a 1 1\/2 hour speech?  And a TV network covering it?  Heck, the TV networks barely devote that much to the political conventions anymore.  We just don&#8217;t have the attention span as people used to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/the_art_of_political_rhetoric\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The Art of Political Rhetoric\"><p>Earlier today C-Span2 rebroadcast a Sam Waterston reenactment of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s 1860 Cooper Union address. The anti-slavery speech, delivered 27 February 1860 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, is claimed to have propelled Lincoln to the presidency that year. At the end of the performance, Waterston said it had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}