{"id":707,"date":"2016-07-28T23:35:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=707"},"modified":"2020-07-30T19:50:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T19:50:44","slug":"america-guided-by-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/america-guided-by-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"America Guided by Wisdom Engraving, 1815"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_703\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-703\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-703\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/America-Guided-by-Wisdom-30-2-1000x737.jpg\" alt=\"John J. Bartlett, &quot;America guided by wisdom An allegorical representation of the United States depicting their independence and prosperity,&quot; 1815, via Library of Congress. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/America-Guided-by-Wisdom-30-2-1000x737.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/America-Guided-by-Wisdom-30-2-250x184.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/America-Guided-by-Wisdom-30-2-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/America-Guided-by-Wisdom-30-2-500x368.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/America-Guided-by-Wisdom-30-2-624x460.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/America-Guided-by-Wisdom-30-2.jpg 1584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John J. Bartlett, &#8220;America guided by wisdom An allegorical representation of the United States depicting their independence and prosperity,&#8221; 1815, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2010634241\/\">Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This print reflects the sense of triumph many white Americans felt following the War of 1812. Drawing from the visual language of Jeffersonian Republicans, we see America\u2014represented as a woman in classical dress\u2014surrounded by gods of wisdom, commerce, and agriculture on one side and a statue of George Washington emblazoned with the recent war\u2019s victories on the other. The romantic sense of the United States as the heir to the ancient Roman republic, pride in military victory, and the glorification of domestic production contributed to the idea the young nation was about to enter an \u201cera of good feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This print reflects the sense of triumph many white Americans felt following the War of 1812. Drawing from the visual language of Jeffersonian Republicans, we see America\u2014represented as a woman in classical dress\u2014surrounded by gods of wisdom, commerce, and agriculture on one side and a statue of George Washington emblazoned with the recent war\u2019s victories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}