{"id":144083,"date":"2022-07-11T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=144083"},"modified":"2022-07-11T16:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T23:00:32","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-john-quincy-adams-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=144083","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from John Quincy Adams on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Quincy Adams was our 6th President and one of the first to be photographed.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPosterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God\u2019s service when it is violating all His laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCourage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Quincy_Adams\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/John_Q._Adams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"289\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144084\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Quincy Adams was our 6th President and one of the first to be photographed. \u201cPosterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.\u201d \u201cPower always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144084,"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-144083","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\/2022\/07\/John_Q._Adams.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144083","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=144083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144085,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144083\/revisions\/144085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}