{"id":4523,"date":"2006-02-20T09:06:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T14:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:53:04","slug":"presidents-a-lady-infinitely-dearer-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4523","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;a Lady infinitely dearer to me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John to Abigail, Saturday morning, Aug. 1763 &#8211; this is from their courtship period (he referred to her as &#8220;Diana&#8221; in their letters, she addressed him as &#8220;Lysander&#8221;) &#8211; I love this letter, it&#8217;s so erotic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I lay, in the well known Chamber, and dreamed, I saw a Lady, tripping it over the Hills, on Weymouth shore, and Spreading Light and Beauty and Glory, all around her. At first I thought it was Aurora, with her fair Complexion, her Crimson Blushes and her million Charms and Graces. But I soon found it was Diana, a Lady infinitely dearer to me and more charming. &#8212; Should Diana make her Appearance every morning instead of Aurora, I should not sleep as I do, but should be all awake and admiring by four, at latest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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=0674057058&#038;asins=0674057058&#038;linkId=KLS57ISWJIMAQMEC&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John to Abigail, Saturday morning, Aug. 1763 &#8211; this is from their courtship period (he referred to her as &#8220;Diana&#8221; in their letters, she addressed him as &#8220;Lysander&#8221;) &#8211; I love this letter, it&#8217;s so erotic: I lay, in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4523\">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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523"}],"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=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102598,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/102598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}