{"id":1396,"date":"2004-07-25T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2015-05-14T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:20:20","slug":"thomas-paines-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Paine&#8217;s Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John headed home to Abigail in early 1776.  There was still (unbelievable as it may seem at this point) a hope that matters could be resolved, and that the 13 rebellious colonies would remain a part of the British Empire.  This was the general feeling, the Congress was not looking towards Independence &#8211; but towards &#8220;resolutions&#8221; and self-rule laws that they would present to England.<\/p>\n<p>But then &#8211; like a bomb going off in January &#8211; Thomas Paine&#8217;s <i>Common Sense<\/i> was published.  The impact of this document can&#8217;t be over-estimated.  Shock waves went out through the colonies.  People began to look towards a complete break with England.<\/p>\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=0486296024&#038;asins=0486296024&#038;linkId=MCIQ42MCTXQ4NVUR&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John headed home to Abigail in early 1776. There was still (unbelievable as it may seem at this point) a hope that matters could be resolved, and that the 13 rebellious colonies would remain a part of the British Empire. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1396\">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":[1497,1494,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"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=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101775,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/101775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}