{"id":16011,"date":"2016-03-10T07:35:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=16011"},"modified":"2016-03-10T07:35:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:35:37","slug":"a-quote-from-thomas-jefferson-from-1787-in-praise-of-the-rural-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=16011","title":{"rendered":"A Quote From Thomas Jefferson From 1787 In Praise Of The Rural Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, FR&#8230;Written when he was Ambassador to France.  &#8220;I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt.&#8221;  Written by Thomas Jefferson to James Madison  ~ Brought To You By Allison James Real Estate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg\" alt=\"Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_(by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800)\" width=\"220\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16020\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leannesmith.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/company-logo.png\" alt=\"company-logo\" width=\"288\" height=\"323\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/company-logo.png 288w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/company-logo-267x300.png 267w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/company-logo-150x168.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, FR&#8230;Written when he was Ambassador to France. &#8220;I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16020,"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":[4,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-style","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16011","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=16011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}