{"id":20836,"date":"2018-12-17T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20836"},"modified":"2018-12-17T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T20:37:00","slug":"wise-words-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20836","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to be impressed at the wisdom and eloquence of America&#8217;s founding fathers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.&#8221; \u2013 George Washington<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government &#8211; lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.&#8221;\u2014 Patrick Henry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to be impressed at the wisdom and eloquence of America&#8217;s founding fathers. &#8220;Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.&#8221; \u2013 George Washington &#8220;The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wise Words&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20837,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions\/20837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}