{"id":4522,"date":"2006-02-20T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2013-02-11T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:33:12","slug":"presidents-methought-i-heard-him-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4522","title":{"rendered":"“Methought I heard him think”"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Adams later wrote about the day of his inauguration as the second President of the United States:<\/p>\n

A solemn scene it was indeed. Washington’s face remained as serene and unclouded as the day. Methought I heard him think, ‘Ay! I am fairly out and you are fairly in! See which of us will be the happiest!’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Adams later wrote about the day of his inauguration as the second President of the United States: A solemn scene it was indeed. Washington’s face remained as serene and unclouded as the day. Methought I heard him think, ‘Ay! … 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":[1103,1494,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522"}],"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=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63870,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/63870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}