{"id":54349,"date":"2023-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54349"},"modified":"2023-02-24T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:22:32","slug":"this-blog-is-20-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54349","title":{"rendered":"This blog is 20 years old today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First post: February 24, 2003, with 40,000 or so posts since then on three different platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More importantly, today is also the 262d anniversary of James Otis\u2019 1761 argument at the Boston Old State House against the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/history\/united-states-and-canada\/us-history\/writs-assistance\" target=\"_blank\">writs of assistance<\/a> in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/press-pubs.uchicago.edu\/founders\/documents\/amendIVs2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paxton\u2019s Case<\/a>. Transcripts of the argument are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/268\/8\/9.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (It was reargued Nov. 16, 1761.) See my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5203\" target=\"_blank\">2011 post<\/a> at the 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As John Adams wrote and reported in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adams-Papers-Legal-John\/dp\/B000QJ21Z2\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1550890812&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=legal+papers+of+john+adams\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Papers of John Adams (1968)<\/a>, this tension of this case was part of the impetus for the Revolution itself and the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights in 1791, fully 30 years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First post: February 24, 2003, with 40,000 or so posts since then on three different platforms. More importantly, today is also the 262d anniversary of James Otis\u2019 1761 argument at the Boston Old State House against the writs of assistance &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54349\">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-54349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54349","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=54349"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54384,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54349\/revisions\/54384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}