{"id":20904,"date":"2026-04-30T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20904"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:17:36","slug":"john-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20904","title":{"rendered":"John Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy”.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Adams <\/a>was part of the Massachusetts delegation to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was the second President of the United States and was a fierce political foe of Thomas Jefferson. My brief summary cannot begin to give you any idea of how important to the founding Adams was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A great book about John Adams is John Adams written by David McCullough<\/a>. He and his wife,Abigail wrote to each other often and saved all of the letters so on top of being important there is a trove of information about him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Adams definitely gets an A on the Simon Familiarity Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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