{"id":5345,"date":"2026-04-08T08:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:57:22","slug":"jefferson-madison-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5345","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson, Madison, Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night at my local library I&#8217;m giving a presentation on three men with ties to public universities in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Mason either\u00a0<em>started<\/em> a college, or decades later had a college named after them. (I&#8217;ll let you figure out which is which.)<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting part of my research was that I kept coming across the name Lafayette, as in, the Marquis de Lafayette.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, was there any piece of early American history this guy\u00a0<em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> a part of? He&#8217;s like the Forrest Gump of the 18th and 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>He probably exaggerated a little when he said he was bigger than Jesus, but not by much.<\/p>\n<p>Further info? Come to the Cascades Library in Sterling, Virginia, tomorrow night at seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night at my local library I&#8217;m giving a presentation on three men with ties to public universities in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Mason either\u00a0started a college, or decades later had a college named after them. (I&#8217;ll &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5345\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}