{"id":2452,"date":"2005-02-21T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:23:31","slug":"1789-george-washington-if-i-know-my-own-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"1789: George Washington:  \u201cif I know my own heart\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington wrote the following on the eve of his inauguration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is said that every man has his portion of ambition. I may have mine, I suppose, as well as the rest, but if I know my own heart, my ambition would not lead me into public life; my only ambition is to do my duty in this world as well as I am capable of performing it, and to merit the good opinion of all good men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington wrote the following on the eve of his inauguration: It is said that every man has his portion of ambition. I may have mine, I suppose, as well as the rest, but if I know my own heart, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2452\">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":[1103,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452"}],"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=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63771,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/63771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}