{"id":172202,"date":"2024-01-24T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=172202"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:47:28","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-john-hancock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=172202","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from John Hancock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA&#8230;John Hancock, January 23, 1737 \u2013 October 8, 1793. an American Founding Father, Merchant, Statesman &amp; Patriot of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hancock\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-154602 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/John_Hancock_1770-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"309\" 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<p>&#8220;The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA&#8230;John Hancock, January 23, 1737 \u2013 October 8, 1793. an American Founding Father, Merchant, Statesman &amp; Patriot of the American Revolution. &#8220;The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner [&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":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172202","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\/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\/172202","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=172202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172205,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172202\/revisions\/172205"}],"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=172202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}