{"id":5943,"date":"2012-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/say-nothing\/"},"modified":"2012-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"say-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/say-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=&quot;https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Jefferson.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; \/><\/p>\n<p>The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words &quot;Be just and good&quot; is that in which all our inquiries must end. . . . My answer was &quot;Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Affectionately adieu.<br \/>Thomas Jefferson,<\/p>\n<p class=&quot;authorCredit&quot;>From a letter to John Adams, January 11, 1817. The two men, once political enemies, carried a correspondence until their deaths on the same day: July 4, 1827. Quoted in &quot;Ye Will Say I Am No Christian,&quot; edited by Bruce Braden (Prometheus Books, 2006), p. 190.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words &quot;Be just and good&quot; is that in which all our inquiries must end. . . . My answer was &quot;Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-5943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-january-february-2012","tag-january-february-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}