{"id":2445,"date":"2005-02-21T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2015-05-12T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:59:14","slug":"1785-plentiful-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2445","title":{"rendered":"1785:  \u201cPlentiful Rains\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>John Adams to Thomas Jefferson<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dessin&#8217;s Calais May 23, 1785<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; From a motive of Humanity I wish that our Country may have plentiful Rains, and our Husbandmen Industry, that they may Supply the Wants of their Suffering Fellow Creatures in Europe.  You see I have nothing so mean as a selfish or even a patriotic Wish in all this.  But from the same regard to Europe and her worthy Colonists in the West Indies, I hope that these rainless, heatless Heavens will convince them that it is abundantly for their good that We should bring and carry freely, our Flour, Wheat, Corn, Rice, Flesh, and Fish for their Soulagement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><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=0807842303&#038;asins=0807842303&#038;linkId=53O5N6YOKRIEYSTB&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Adams to Thomas Jefferson: Dessin&#8217;s Calais May 23, 1785 &#8230; From a motive of Humanity I wish that our Country may have plentiful Rains, and our Husbandmen Industry, that they may Supply the Wants of their Suffering Fellow Creatures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2445\">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":[1494,174,924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445"}],"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=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101050,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/101050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}