{"id":173161,"date":"2024-02-19T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=173161"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T18:47:47","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-george-washington-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=173161","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from George Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Vernon, VA&#8230;George Washington February 22, 1732 \u2013 December 14, 1799. The first president of the United States and founding father of our country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Washington\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107252\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/220px-Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is better to be alone than in bad company.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Vernon, VA&#8230;George Washington February 22, 1732 \u2013 December 14, 1799. The first president of the United States and founding father of our country. &#8220;It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.&#8221; &#8220;Be courteous to all, but intimate with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107252,"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-173161","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\/2020\/09\/220px-Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173161","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=173161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173162,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173161\/revisions\/173162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}