{"id":1493,"date":"2016-01-11T07:31:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T12:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2016-01-06T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T20:07:46","slug":"happy-birthday-sir-john-a-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Sir John A. Macdonald!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/john-a-macdonald.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1494\" title=\"john-a-macdonald\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/john-a-macdonald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/john-a-macdonald.jpg 371w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/john-a-macdonald-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If I had influence over the minds of the people of Canada, any power over their intellect, I would leave them this legacy: \u2018Whatever you do, adhere to the Union. We are a great country, and shall become one of the greatest in the universe if we preserve it; we shall sink into insignificance and adversity if we suffer it to be broken.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday Sir John A.! We certainly miss your national vision and your leadership today. For more, click here to see the <em>By George<\/em> archived articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?tag=john-a-macdonald\" target=\"_blank\">this great man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;If I had influence over the minds of the people of Canada, any power over their intellect, I would leave them this legacy: \u2018Whatever you do, adhere to the Union. We are a great country, and shall become one of the greatest in the universe if we preserve it; we shall sink into insignificance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,29,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7657,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}