{"id":636,"date":"2010-09-17T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T20:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2010-09-17T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T20:32:54","slug":"202-years-ago-next-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2010\/09\/17\/202-years-ago-next-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"202 years ago next Monday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 20, 1808, the President sent this to the inhabitants of Kingston in response to their earlier petition about the Embargo Act of 1807.\u00a0 As form letters go, this is a good one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0001-mc27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-637\" title=\"doc-09-0001-mc27\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0001-mc27.jpg\" alt=\"Jefferson letter, page 1, 1808\" width=\"500\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0001-mc27.jpg 521w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0001-mc27-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jefferson letter, page 1, 1808<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-638\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0002-mc27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-638\" title=\"doc-09-0002-mc27\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0002-mc27.jpg\" alt=\"Jefferson letter, page 2, 1808\" width=\"500\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0002-mc27.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0002-mc27-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jefferson letter, page 2, 1808<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-640\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0003-mc27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-640\" title=\"doc-09-0003-mc27\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0003-mc27.jpg\" alt=\"Jefferson letter, page 3, 1808\" width=\"500\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0003-mc27.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/doc-09-0003-mc27-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jefferson letter, page 3, 1808<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 20, 1808, the President sent this to the inhabitants of Kingston in response to their earlier petition about the Embargo Act of 1807.\u00a0 As form letters go, this is a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-town-of-kingston","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}