{"id":111575,"date":"2020-12-12T12:12:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T20:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=111575"},"modified":"2020-12-12T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T20:15:00","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-george-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=111575","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from George Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.\u201d ~ George Mason IV December 11, 1725 \u2013 October 7, 1792<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty. And can never be restrained but by despotic governments.\u201d ~ George Mason IV December 11, 1725 \u2013 October 7, 1792<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.&#8221; ~ George Mason IV December 11, 1725 \u2013 October 7, 1792<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Mason\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-111576\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/330px-George_Mason.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/330px-George_Mason.jpg 330w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/330px-George_Mason-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.\u201d ~ George Mason IV December 11, 1725 \u2013 October 7, 1792 \u201cThe freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty. And can never be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/330px-George_Mason.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}