{"id":3288,"date":"2025-02-12T11:08:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:02:03","slug":"young-abraham-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2025\/02\/12\/young-abraham-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Abraham Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by Reinhard Kargl<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty. His birthplace was a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Raised on the frontier (mainly in Indiana) he was well-read and self-educated, and became a lawyer who opened a law practice in Springfield, Illinois.<br><br>I asked DALL-E to simulate what Lincoln might have looked like as a young man during this period of his life, using historical images as reference. Here are the results:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln-.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln--400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln--150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln--768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln--624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln-2.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln-2-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln-2-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Young-Abraham-Lincoln-2-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\"><h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3428\">Did Rocket Pioneer Robert Goddard Ever Work On Mount Wilson?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3422\">Christmas At Hollywood And Vine<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3404\">The Ugly Broad<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3348\">The La Monica Ballroom (1924 &#8211; 1963)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3292\">Rooftop Boxing<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Reinhard Kargl On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty. His birthplace was a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Raised on the frontier (mainly in Indiana) he was well-read and self-educated, and became a lawyer who opened a law practice in Springfield, Illinois. I asked DALL-E to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america-english","category-english","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}