{"id":599,"date":"2010-07-04T21:32:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T04:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2010-07-04T21:32:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T04:32:29","slug":"rip-john-adams-and-thomas-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"RIP John Adams and Thomas Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my good friend <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ArnieK\" target=\"_blank\">Arnie Kuenn<\/a> for reminding Twitterdom today that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day <a href=\"http:\/\/python.net\/crew\/manus\/Presidents\/faq\/july4.html\" target=\"_blank\">184 years ago today<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>These two great leaders, who participated in the founding of our nation, became bitter political rivals, but reconciled and became best of friends in their later years.&#160; Once can only imagine that this friendship survived their mortal passing and continued as then stepped forward together into eternity.&#160; <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_jefferson\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image1.png\" width=\"195\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_adams\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image2.png\" width=\"195\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>Thank you John and Thomas for your separate and joint roles in founding and leading our great nation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:001d2744-42e6-4c25-9cdf-c175ce32d556\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Thomas+Jefferson\" rel=\"tag\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/John+Adams\" rel=\"tag\">John Adams<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Independence+Day\" rel=\"tag\">Independence Day<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Fourth+of+July\" rel=\"tag\">Fourth of July<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Founding+Fathers\" rel=\"tag\">Founding Fathers<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my good friend Arnie Kuenn for reminding Twitterdom today that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day 184 years ago today \u00e2\u20ac\u201c July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3],"tags":[27,138,136,141,140],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-article","tag-founding-fathers","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-independence-day","tag-john-adams","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}