{"id":5377,"date":"2012-05-28T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2012-05-28T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T20:26:24","slug":"new-signature-found-on-us-contitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/new-signature-found-on-us-contitution\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;Signature&#8221; Found on US Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years scholars have argued over the meaning of a small smudge in the lower right hand corner of the signature page of the US Constitution.  Finally, modern graphic enhancement techniques have been applied to clarify what the smudge means, and it does, in fact, seem to mean something.  What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3921\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/files\/2012\/05\/constitution_new_discovery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3921\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/150124_437552126274355_100000587148821_1520545_1083340099_n-12\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/150124_437552126274355_100000587148821_1520545_1083340099_n11.jpg?fit=500%2C637&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,637\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"150124_437552126274355_100000587148821_1520545_1083340099_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/150124_437552126274355_100000587148821_1520545_1083340099_n11.jpg?fit=235%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/150124_437552126274355_100000587148821_1520545_1083340099_n11.jpg?fit=500%2C637&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/files\/2012\/05\/constitution_new_discovery-500x644.jpg?resize=500%2C644\" alt=\"\" title=\"constitution_new_discovery\" width=\"500\" height=\"644\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3921\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The smudge, in the lower right hand corner, blown up and enhanced (inside red box).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years scholars have argued over the meaning of a small smudge in the lower right hand corner of the signature page of the US Constitution. Finally, modern graphic enhancement techniques have been applied to clarify what the smudge means, and it does, in fact, seem to mean something. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1oJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}