{"id":466,"date":"2004-02-16T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2015-05-13T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:32:04","slug":"adams-to-jefferson-who-will-ever-be-able-to-write-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Adams to Jefferson \u201cWho will ever be able to write it?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ADAMS AND JEFFERSON, after they both had been President and mended their relationship:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Adams, in a letter<\/i>:  Who shall write the history of the American Revolution?  Who can write it?  Who will ever be able to write it?<\/p>\n<p><i>Jefferson&#8217;s reply:<\/i>  Nobody, except perhaps its external facts.<\/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=3A5M4IRJWU7DF7GQ&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ADAMS AND JEFFERSON, after they both had been President and mended their relationship: Adams, in a letter: Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? Who will ever be able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1494,174,924,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101237,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/101237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}