{"id":2123,"date":"2012-10-28T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/28\/happy-126th-birthday-to-the-statue-of-liberty\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:47:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:47:25","slug":"happy-126th-birthday-to-the-statue-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/28\/happy-126th-birthday-to-the-statue-of-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2123 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/28\/happy-126th-birthday-to-the-statue-of-liberty\/attachment\/2124\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mcmkdx87KG1r3qmd1o1_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Happy 126th birthday to the Statue of Liberty! Today also marks the end of a year worth of renovations to the Statue.<\/p>\n<p>The American Jewish Historical Society here at the Center holds the handwritten original of Emma Lazarus&rsquo;s &ldquo;The New Colossus&rdquo; (1883), which is the poem that graces the Statue of Liberty (installed on bronze plaque in 1903). The above image is of the poem in\u00a0 Lazarus&rsquo;s draft form; you can read the text below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New Collosus<\/strong><br \/>by Emma Lazarus<\/p>\n<p>Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,<br \/>With conquering limbs astride from land to land;<br \/>Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand<br \/>A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame<br \/>Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name<br \/>Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand<br \/>Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command<br \/>The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.<br \/>\u201cKeep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!\u201d cries she<br \/>With silent lips. \u201cGive me your tired, your poor,<br \/>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br \/>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br \/>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<br \/>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the poem and its history, read the<em> New York Times<\/em> blog entry: <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/26\/how-a-sonnet-made-a-statue-the-mother-of-exiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;How a Sonnet Made a Statue the &lsquo;Mother of Exiles.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 126th birthday to the Statue of Liberty! Today also marks the end of a year worth of renovations to the Statue. The American Jewish Historical Society here at the Center holds the handwritten original of Emma Lazarus&rsquo;s &ldquo;The New Colossus&rdquo; (1883), which is the poem that graces the Statue of Liberty (installed on bronze plaque in 1903). The above image is of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,1090,8,447,1089,1091],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-american-jewish-historical-society-collections","tag-emma-lazarus","tag-history","tag-poetry","tag-statue-of-liberty","tag-the-new-colossus","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}