{"id":5190,"date":"2017-11-20T23:53:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T04:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2023-11-03T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:44:13","slug":"42-a-nice-speech-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=5190","title":{"rendered":"42. A Nice Speech, But\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1457\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg42.webp\" alt=\"Franklin implored the delegates to sign the Constitution unanimously. But\u2026\" class=\"wp-image-10111\" style=\"width:1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg42.webp 1200w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg42-768x932.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two things. First: My wonderful Patreons get to see these pages early &#8212; and in glorious full resolution. (They also get the occasional side story and bonus art.) If you would like to help keep the comic going, consider throwing a dollar or five its way. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Second: I have taken outrageous artistic license here (as usual).\u00a0I&#8217;ve knocked one of Franklin&#8217;s most powerful and moving speeches into a few terse blurbs &#8212; cutting out both not only the poetry and emotion, but also the jokes! Outrageous!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And I&#8217;ve had him say the words himself. I&#8217;ve denied you what happened in real life &#8212; he was too weak to speak, it was a monumental effort for him to even attend, and so with an unsteady hand he handed his prepared remarks to James Wilson to read for him. The delegates were all<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5192 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/feels.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I denied you all that. And I&#8217;m going to do it again, real soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Unforgivable.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Two things. First: My wonderful Patreons get to see these pages early &#8212; and in glorious full resolution. (They also get the occasional side story and bonus art.) If you would like to help keep the comic going, consider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=5190\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,35,47,1,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-completion","category-constitutional-law","category-creating-the-constitution","category-uncategorized","category-what-were-they-thinking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}