{"id":859,"date":"2014-06-30T22:57:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T03:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=859"},"modified":"2015-10-27T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T23:13:22","slug":"thomas-jefferson-on-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2014\/06\/30\/thomas-jefferson-on-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Jefferson on History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em><strong>History, in general, only informs us what bad government is<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 But as we have employed some of the best materials of the British constitution in the construction of our own government, a knowlege of British history becomes useful to the American politician. There is, however, no general history of that country which can be recommended.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;Letter of Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell Washington,&#8221; June 14, 1807. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.let.rug.nl\/usa\/presidents\/thomas-jefferson\/letters-of-thomas-jefferson\/jefl179.php\">http:\/\/www.let.rug.nl\/usa\/presidents\/thomas-jefferson\/letters-of-thomas-jefferson\/jefl179.p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.\u00a0 But as we have employed some of the best materials of the British constitution in the construction of our own government, a knowlege of British history becomes useful to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2014\/06\/30\/thomas-jefferson-on-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-history","category-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}