{"id":218,"date":"2009-07-13T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-07-13T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T03:00:18","slug":"thomas-jefferson-liberty-is-a-gift-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Jefferson: Liberty is a Gift of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Thomas Jefferson\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/46\/T_Jefferson_by_Charles_Willson_Peale_1791_2.jpg\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 150px; HEIGHT: 210px\" height=\"210\" alt=\"Thomas Jefferson\" width=\"150\"\/><\/a>&#8220;God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Thomas Jefferson\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a>, Third President of the United States, Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=218\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29,32,33],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-quote","tag-god","tag-liberty","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}