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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cHe that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 \u2013 April 17, 1790<\/p>\n
\u201cDost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that\u2019s the Stuff Life is made of.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 \u2013 April 17, 1790<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 \u2013 April 17, 1790<\/p>\n
\u201cHe that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 \u2013 April 17, 1790<\/p>\n
\u201cHe that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 \u2013 April 17, 1790<\/p>\n
\u201cLove your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 \u2013 April 17, 1790<\/p>\n
\u201cWell done is better than well said.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 \u2013 April 17, 1790<\/p>\n
\u201cBetter slip with foot than tongue.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 \u2013 April 17, 1790<\/p>\n
\u201cNo gains without pains.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin January 17, 1706 \u2013 April 17, 1790<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Philadelphia, PA\u2026A Bit of Wisdom for today from my favorite founding father. Considered the first American by many. He also through his writings and Poor Richard\u2019s Almanac created the uniquely American identity. \u201cHe that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.\u201d ~ Benjamin Franklin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68661,"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-198581","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\/2018\/10\/220px-Benjamin_Franklin_by_Joseph_Duplessis_1778-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198581","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=198581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198582,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198581\/revisions\/198582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}