{"id":491,"date":"2004-02-16T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T19:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2015-05-13T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:20:01","slug":"john-adams-1820-i-wish-your-nation-to-be-admitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"John Adams, 1820 \u201cI wish your nation to be admitted \u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN ADAMS, 85 years old, 1820 &#8211; replying to a letter from Mordecai Noah, a Jewish editor from New York:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have had occasion to be acquainted with several gentlemen of your nation and to transact business with some of them, whom I found to be men of as liberal minds, as much as honor, probity, generosity, and good breeding as any I have known in any seat of religion or philosophy.  I wish your nation to be admitted to all the privileges of citizens in every country in the world.  This country has done much, I wish it may do more.<\/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=0743223136&#038;asins=0743223136&#038;linkId=WTN6SXY7BKHV5P2J&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN ADAMS, 85 years old, 1820 &#8211; replying to a letter from Mordecai Noah, a Jewish editor from New York: I have had occasion to be acquainted with several gentlemen of your nation and to transact business with some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=491\">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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101211,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/101211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}