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\u201cHe is wholly insufficient for his place with the additional misfortune of not himself having the least suspicion of the fact.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Alexander Hamilton<\/a> the excellent biography by Ron Chernow <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo is of a pond in Yosemite Valley. It was perfectly still. December 2010. A perfect spot for some Pareidolia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHe is wholly insufficient for his place with the additional misfortune of not himself having the least suspicion of the fact.\u201d Alexander Hamilton From Alexander Hamilton the excellent biography by Ron Chernow Photo is of a pond in Yosemite Valley. It was perfectly still. December 2010. A perfect spot for some Pareidolia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[1227,61,311],"class_list":["post-19595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-travel","tag-alexander-hamilton","tag-maxim","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0127.jpg?fit=1500%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-563","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19602,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19595\/revisions\/19602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}