{"id":33,"date":"2010-02-24T10:36:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/02\/24\/new-reading-room-exhibit-guess-the-theme\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:48:29","slug":"new-reading-room-exhibit-guess-the-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/02\/24\/new-reading-room-exhibit-guess-the-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"New Reading Room exhibit: Guess the theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">What do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/justices\/john_marshall\" title=\"Oyez project bio of John Marshall\">John Marshall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/justices\/roger_b_taney\" title=\"Oyez project bio of Justice Taney\">Roger B. Taney<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/justices\/john_jay\" title=\"Oyez project bio of John Jay\">John Jay<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiohistorycentral.org\/entry.php?rec=92\" title=\"Bio of Salmon P. Chase from Ohio History Central\">Salmon Portland Chase<\/a> have in common?\u00a0 If you know that they all served as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/about\/oathsofthechiefjustices2009.pdf\" title=\"PDF from US Supreme Court Website\">Chief Justice<\/a> of the United States <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/\" title=\"US Supreme Court official site\">Supreme Court<\/a>, then good for you.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not the answer.\u00a0 What about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhill.org\/biography.html\" title=\"Patrick Henry bio from Red Hill-Patrick Henry National Monument\">Patrick Henry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about\/presidents\/AbrahamLincoln\/\" title=\"Bio of Abe Lincoln from the White House official Web site\">Abe Lincoln<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/scripts\/biodisplay.pl?index=w000238\" title=\"Bio of Daniel Webster from Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress\">Daniel Webster<\/a>?\u00a0 Yes, they were all prominent statesmen.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not it, either.\u00a0 For the answer to both questions, which happens to be the same in each instance, see the display case in the center of the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lawschool.cornell.edu\/WhoWeAre\/Our-Space\/index.cfm\" title=\"Description of library from Cornell Law Library page\">Reading Room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do John Marshall, Roger B. Taney, John Jay, and Salmon Portland Chase have in common?\u00a0 If you know that they all served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, then good for you.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not the answer.\u00a0 What about Patrick Henry, Abe Lincoln, and Daniel Webster?\u00a0 Yes, they were all prominent <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/02\/24\/new-reading-room-exhibit-guess-the-theme\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319],"tags":[320,318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}