{"id":194676,"date":"2025-08-17T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=194676"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:30:00","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-davy-crockett-on-his-birthday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=194676","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Davy Crockett on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limestone, TN&#8230;Davy Crockett, August 17, 1786 \u2013 March 6, 1836.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Davy_Crockett\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145884\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220px-David_Crockett_portrait_by_Chester_Harding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.\u201d ~ David Crockett August 17, 1786 \u2013 March 6, 1836<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me&#8230; Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.\u201d ~ David Crockett August 17, 1786 \u2013 March 6, 1836<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember these words when I am dead. First be sure you&#8217;re right, then go ahead.\u201d ~ David Crockett August 17, 1786 \u2013 March 6, 1836<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.\u201d ~ David Crockett August 17, 1786 \u2013 March 6, 1836<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limestone, TN&#8230;Davy Crockett, August 17, 1786 \u2013 March 6, 1836. \u201cWe have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.\u201d ~ David Crockett August 17, 1786 \u2013 March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145884,"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-194676","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\/2022\/08\/220px-David_Crockett_portrait_by_Chester_Harding.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194676","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=194676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194677,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194676\/revisions\/194677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}