{"id":15822,"date":"2015-02-24T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15822"},"modified":"2015-02-24T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T11:50:07","slug":"today-is-the-12th-anniversary-of-this-blog-and-254th-anniversary-of-the-writs-of-assistance-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15822","title":{"rendered":"Today is the 254th anniversary of the &#8220;Writs of Assistance Case&#8221; and the 12th anniversary of this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5203\">prior posts on Paxton&#8217;s case<\/a>, the original Writs of Assistance case, argued this date in 1761. John Adams credited James Otis&#8217;s argument, which he witnessed, as helping foment the Revolution and led directly to the Fourth Amendment. Otis lost the case; well, he expected to; but he didn&#8217;t give up, and what a point he made.<\/p>\n<p>For this blog there have been almost 12,000 posts, reviewing at least 25,000 cases. 1.4M visitors since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See one of the prior posts on Paxton&#8217;s case, the original Writs of Assistance case, argued this date in 1761. John Adams credited James Otis&#8217;s argument, which he witnessed, as helping foment the Revolution and led directly to the Fourth &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15822\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15822"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15825,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822\/revisions\/15825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}