{"id":484,"date":"2012-01-26T19:10:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2012-01-27T01:25:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T06:25:42","slug":"a-quote-from-t-jefferson-that-is-very-relevent-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/a-quote-from-t-jefferson-that-is-very-relevent-today\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quote From Thomas Jefferson That is Very Relevent Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"485\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/a-quote-from-t-jefferson-that-is-very-relevent-today\/220px-thomas_jefferson_by_rembrandt_peale_1800\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/220px-Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"220,262\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"220px-Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/220px-Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-485\" title=\"Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/220px-Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quote:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What a brilliant quote, and so relevant today\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Something to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ponder\" target=\"_blank\">ponder<\/a> &#8230; With all our governments, doing the exact opposite, what does that make them?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote: Thomas Jefferson &#8220;A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.&#8221; Something to ponder [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[15],"tags":[35,36],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-freedom","tag-tomas-jefferson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p29Kla-7O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}