{"id":1351,"date":"2004-07-24T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2015-05-14T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:43:35","slug":"john-to-abigail-blessed-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"John to Abigail:  &#8220;blessed storm!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>John to Abigail, Feb. 14th 1763<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I intended to have been at Weymouth Yesterday, but a storm pervented. &#8212; Cruel.  Yet perhaps blessed storm! &#8212; Cruel for detaining me from so much friendly, social Company, and perhaps blessed to you, or me or both, for keeping me at <i>my Distance<\/i>.  For every experimental Phylosopher knows, that the steel and the Magnet or the Glass and feather will not fly together with more Celerity, than somebody And somebody, when brought within the striking Distance &#8212; and, Itches, Aches, Agues, and Repentance might be the Consequences of a Contact in present Circumstances.    Even the Divines pronounce casuistically, I hear, &#8220;unfit to be touched these three Weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0674057058&#038;asins=0674057058&#038;linkId=OCIH2QW7UQSTWVUU&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John to Abigail, Feb. 14th 1763 I intended to have been at Weymouth Yesterday, but a storm pervented. &#8212; Cruel. Yet perhaps blessed storm! &#8212; Cruel for detaining me from so much friendly, social Company, and perhaps blessed to you, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1351\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1497,1494],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101700,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/101700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}