{"id":786,"date":"2009-02-15T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T16:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/02\/15\/roger-billings-on-lincoln-and-more\/"},"modified":"2009-02-15T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T16:33:47","slug":"roger-billings-on-lincoln-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/02\/15\/roger-billings-on-lincoln-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Billings on Lincoln &#8211; And More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/billings.jpg\" \/>Elsewhere on the web site you will see the story of Trustee and class agent Roger Billings&#8217; informational talk on the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. &nbsp;Roger is an expert on Lincoln. &nbsp;In fact, he has more books on Lincoln than I own. &nbsp;(OK, he only needed 7 books, I realize that!)<\/p>\n<p>Roger&#8217;s Chapel Talk was a good one, no doubt. &nbsp;Full of information about an interesting period in our nation&#8217;s history. &nbsp;That&#8217;s especially true, I think, given the new President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/billings2(1).jpg\" \/>There was a little extra pressure on Roger I think, or at least there would have been if I were in his position. &nbsp;You see, two legends of the Wabash faculty were in attendance&#8230;none other than Vic Powell and Joe O&#8217;Rourke, both speech professors of historic stature (photo on right).<\/p>\n<p>Roger passed with flying colors, I&#8217;m told!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsewhere on the web site you will see the story of Trustee and class agent Roger Billings&#8217; informational talk on the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. &nbsp;Roger is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}