{"id":154601,"date":"2023-01-23T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=154601"},"modified":"2023-01-23T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:14:28","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-john-hancock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=154601","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from John Hancock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual\u2026 Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.&#8221; ~ John Hancock January 23, 1737 \u2013 October 8, 1793<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions.&#8221; ~ John Hancock January 23, 1737 \u2013 October 8, 1793<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have the most animating confidence that the present noble struggle for liberty will terminate gloriously for America.&#8221; ~ John Hancock January 23, 1737 \u2013 October 8, 1793<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!&#8221; ~ John Hancock January 23, 1737 \u2013 October 8, 1793<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.&#8221; ~ John Hancock January 23, 1737 \u2013 October 8, 1793<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hancock\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/John_Hancock_1770-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/John_Hancock_1770-crop.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/John_Hancock_1770-crop-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual\u2026 Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.&#8221; ~ John Hancock January 23, 1737 \u2013 October 8, 1793 &#8220;The more people who own little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154602,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/John_Hancock_1770-crop.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154601","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=154601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154605,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154601\/revisions\/154605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}