{"id":3171,"date":"2026-02-02T22:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=3171"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:37:09","slug":"ben-franklins-virtues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=3171","title":{"rendered":"Ben Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin, one of America&#8217;s founding fathers, wrote his\u00a0 &#8220;The Thirteen Necessary Virtues&#8221; in the 18th century around the time of the founding of the United States of America.\u00a0 Over the years I have experienced the depth and value of these virtues.<\/p>\n<p>The pages below (being published over time) contain my personal insights of each virtue, and have more information for the pilgrim&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=3181' _target=\"blank\">Temperance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/BenFranklinVirtues.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin, one of America&#8217;s founding fathers, wrote his\u00a0 &#8220;The Thirteen Necessary Virtues&#8221; in the 18th century around the time of the founding of the United States of America.\u00a0 Over the years I have experienced the depth and value of these virtues. The pages below (being published over time) contain my personal insights of each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3171\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}