{"id":2465,"date":"2005-02-21T10:53:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:26:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:26:56","slug":"john-adams-extravagant-popularity-is-not-the-road-to-public-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"John Adams: \u2018extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Adams became president by a margin of three votes, I believe. Ehm, a bit too close for comfort. Here is what Adams had to say:<\/p>\n

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Adams became president by a margin of three votes, I believe. Ehm, a bit too close for comfort. Here is what Adams had to say: If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, … Continue reading →<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465"}],"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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63778,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/63778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}