{"id":768,"date":"2016-07-29T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=768"},"modified":"2017-08-01T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:27:41","slug":"the-fruit-of-alcohol-and-temperance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/the-fruit-of-alcohol-and-temperance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fruit of Alcohol and Temperance Lithographs, 1849"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_762\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/temperancetrees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"wp-image-762 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/temperancetrees-1000x691.jpg\" alt=\"N. Currier, \u201cTree of Temperance\u201d and \u201cTree of Intemperance,\u201d 1849, via American Antiquarian Society. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/temperancetrees-1000x691.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/temperancetrees-250x173.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/temperancetrees-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/temperancetrees-500x345.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/temperancetrees-624x431.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">N. Currier, \u201cTree of Temperance\u201d and \u201cTree of Intemperance,\u201d 1849, via <a href=\"http:\/\/gigi.mwa.org\/netpub\/server.np?quickfind=149382&amp;sorton=filename&amp;catalog=catalog&amp;site=public&amp;template=results.np\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Antiquarian Society<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This pair of lithographs, created by Nathaniel Currier (later of Currier &amp; Ives fame), contrasts the \u201cfruits\u201d of abstaining from alcohol to those of indulging in strong drink.&nbsp; It leaves little to the imagination.&nbsp; Intemperance is symbolized by a diseased tree, surrounded by drunks outside of a pawn shop and a woman and her children being thrown out of their home.&nbsp; The lush foliage of temperance, on the other hand, is surrounded by prosperous church-going farm families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pair of lithographs, created by Nathaniel Currier (later of Currier &amp; Ives fame), contrasts the \u201cfruits\u201d of abstaining from alcohol to those of indulging in strong drink.&nbsp; It leaves little to the imagination.&nbsp; Intemperance is symbolized by a diseased tree, surrounded by drunks outside of a pawn shop and a woman and her children [&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-768","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}