{"id":111636,"date":"2016-03-02T18:54:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/02\/an-insolent-coxcomb-who-rarely-dined-in-good\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:54:22","slug":"an-insolent-coxcomb-who-rarely-dined-in-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/02\/an-insolent-coxcomb-who-rarely-dined-in-good\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>an insolent Coxcomb, who rarely dined in good Company where there was good wine, without getting silly, and vapouring about his Administration, like a young Girl about her brilliants and trinketts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>John Adams on Alexander Hamilton. [<a href=\"http:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Adams\/99-02-02-5119\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This is the cutest fucking thing I have read about Alexander Hamilton today and that is saying a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Adams goes on to say, rather incoherently:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From some Windows in my House I see the Capitol in Boston: not only its Dome and Steeple, but the whole body of the Building: from other Windows the view is obstructed by Trees Houses &amp;c, in other Mens lands and there might be Pallaces and Temples. If I should swear I would cutt down all those Trees and burn all those sacred Temples and gorgious Palaces, in order to clear my View and actually attempt and accomplish some of this destruction, I should be an Emblem of the Bairn of Nevis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude, he\u2019s been dead for two years. You need to fucking chill. I also enjoy this about Washington from <a href=\"http:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Adams\/99-02-02-5216\" target=\"_blank\">this letter<\/a> (also to Benjamin Rush):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Talents? You will Say, what Talents? I answer. 1. An handsome Face. That this is a Talent, I can prove by the Authority of a thousand Instances in all Ages: and among the rest Madame DuBarry who said Le veritable Royaute est la Beaut\u00e9 2. A tall Stature, like the Hebrew Sovereign chosen because he was taller by the Head than the other Jews. 3 An elegant Form. 4. graceful Attitudes and Movements. 5. a large imposing Fortune consisting of a great landed Estate left him by his Father and Brother, besides a large Jointure with his Lady, and the Guardianship of the Heirs of the great Custis Estate, and in Addition to all this, immense Tracts of Land of his own Acquisition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>George Washington: people just liked him because he was hot and rich. Okay, fair enough, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/roselerner.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">roselerner<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an insolent Coxcomb, who rarely dined in good Company where there was good wine, without getting silly, and vapouring about his Administration, like a young Girl about her brilliants and trinketts John Adams on Alexander Hamilton. [source] This is the cutest fucking thing I have read about Alexander Hamilton today and that is saying a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/02\/an-insolent-coxcomb-who-rarely-dined-in-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6126,13570,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}