{"id":6114,"date":"2011-03-22T21:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2011-03-22T21:33:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T21:33:34","slug":"at-montpelier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6114","title":{"rendered":"at Montpelier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montpelier, VA&#8211;I am getting ready to sleep on the property of Montpelier, James Madison&#8217;s house. His Georgian\/Federalist mansion is at the top of the nearby hill, overlooking horse fields and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Past his Greek temple &#8220;folly&#8221; and through some old-growth woods, you get to the guest house where I am staying. Tomorrow, colleagues and I will be discussing civic education in the very place where the Constitution was conceived&#8211;and about 100 field and household slaves labored to support the man who wrote it. On this spring night early in the 21st century, all is quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montpelier, VA&#8211;I am getting ready to sleep on the property of Montpelier, James Madison&#8217;s house. His Georgian\/Federalist mansion is at the top of the nearby hill, overlooking horse fields and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Past his Greek temple &#8220;folly&#8221; and through some old-growth woods, you get to the guest house where I am staying. Tomorrow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}