{"id":158730,"date":"2023-04-13T08:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=158730"},"modified":"2023-04-13T08:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:39:02","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-henry-clay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=158730","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Henry Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Clay Sr. April 12, 1777 \u2013 June 29, 1852. American Secretary of State, Senator &amp; Congressman<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/220px-Clay_1848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-158731 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/220px-Clay_1848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would rather be right than President.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Clay Sr. April 12, 1777 \u2013 June 29, 1852. American Secretary of State, Senator &amp; Congressman &#8220;The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.&#8221; &#8220;Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158731,"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-158730","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\/2023\/04\/220px-Clay_1848.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158730","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=158730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158732,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158730\/revisions\/158732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}