{"id":203411,"date":"2026-07-19T11:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=203411"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:18:19","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-the-1733-poor-richards-almanac-american-dream-origins-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=203411","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from the 1733 Poor Richard’s Almanac (American Dream Origins Day One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era.\u00a0 \u00a0For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few Bits of Wisdom from 1733…<\/p>\n

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As our Nation’s 250th Birthday starts to fade into a memory it a a good time to reflect on the idea that is the United States. Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness isn’t just some tagline or marketing gimmick. It cuts to the sole of who we all are. By almost every measurable metric our attainment of our founding Big Three has been getting less possible since 1957. <\/p>\n

As the world gets frenzied by the latest AI bubble a reminder that what it actually takes to keep a person happy and healthy hasn’t changes since the founding of time. In fact the farther we get into the digital age it seems less & less utopian and more and more dystopian. <\/p>\n

Now we see the rise of socialism again. If you look at history when you see the rise of socialism or whatever different name you want to call it. You see a direct correlation to the hopelessness and anger that a growing portion of the population feels that they cannot make it without someone helping them. Our middle class which used to be the bedrock of the American experiment is being decimated.<\/p>\n

The rich are getting richer & those in the middle class are either getting richer or poorer. The happy middle class of the “normies” who just happily live their lives and raise their kids is dying and is some studies almost dead.<\/p>\n

It’s time to go back to basics! Reset the American Dream & refocus on what made our country the greatest in the world and truly the city on a hill for the rest of the world to see. Washington DC, can’t help us & regardless of which party is in power it will probably just make things worse. <\/p>\n

1733
\nLight purse, heavy heart.
\nHe’s a Fool that makes his Doctor his Heir.
\nHunger never saw bad bread.
\nGreat Talkers, little Doers.
\nFools make feasts and wise men eat ’em.
\nThe poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.
\nEat to live, and not live to eat.
\nThe proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.
\nHe that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
\nDistrust & caution are the parents of security.
\nHe is ill cloth’d, who is bare of Virtue.
\nNothing more like a Fool, than a drunken Man.
\nInnocence is its own Defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia, PA…Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era.\u00a0 \u00a0For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174959,"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":[20,1,143,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-opinion","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PoorRichardBan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203411","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=203411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203412,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203411\/revisions\/203412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}