{"id":11331,"date":"2012-02-11T19:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=11331"},"modified":"2012-02-11T19:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T23:18:30","slug":"mary-mary-au-contrairie-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/02\/11\/mary-mary-au-contrairie-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary, Mary? Au Contrairie (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abe Lincoln historians and art historians alike have been stunned by this newly discovered art hoax:<\/a> <\/p>\n

For 32 years, a portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the governor\u2019s mansion in Springfield, Ill., signed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a celebrated painter who lived at the White House for six months in 1864.<\/p>\n

The story behind the picture was compelling: Mrs. Lincoln had Mr. Carpenter secretly paint her portrait as a surprise for the president, but he was assassinated before she had a chance to present it to him.<\/p>\n

Now it turns out that both the portrait and the touching tale accompanying it are false.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a lot more to this story, so I recommend that you read the entire New York Times article. But before you leave me, here’s a limerick:<\/p>\n

Mary, Mary? Au Contrairie (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Art historians suffered a shock:
\nMrs. Lincoln’s famed portrait’s a crock.
\nA rip-off took place–
\nThe pic hasn’t a trace
\nOf Abe’s Mary — it’s scam-ridden schlock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abe Lincoln historians and art historians alike have been stunned by this newly discovered art hoax: For 32 years, a portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the governor\u2019s mansion in Springfield, Ill., signed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a celebrated painter who lived at the White House for six months in 1864. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,48,100,42,116,2652],"tags":[2653,2656,549,2657,4971,4996,2655,1545,2659,2654,5024,2658],"class_list":["post-11331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-humor-verse","category-crime-humor","category-history-humor","category-limericks","category-public-figures","category-scams-fraud-hoaxes","tag-abe-lincoln","tag-art-history","tag-art-limerick","tag-francis-bicknell-carpenter","tag-history-humor","tag-hoaxes","tag-mary-todd-lincoln","tag-new-york-times","tag-painters","tag-presidents-humor","tag-scams","tag-white-house-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11331"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11342,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions\/11342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}