{"id":1481,"date":"2026-07-04T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:59:44","slug":"celebrating-july-4th-not-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating July 4th \u2013 not me."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We Quakers did not support this unnecessary war and suffered for following the pacifist message of Rabbi Jesus and others. For non-participation, many Quakers had the sources of their livelihood seized from them \u2013 horses, cows, furniture, etc. A Quaker Fund for Sufferings Committee shared the costs of these seizures and worked to reimburse those who had loses. I am on that same Committee, 250 years later. Other Quakers had their houses broken into or were arrested by the revolutionaries. I have researched this period and have been representing Quakers at popular reenactments. If you have questions, ask me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG20260704170956.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG20260704170956-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG20260704170956-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG20260704170956-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG20260704170956-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG20260704170956.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Quakers did not support this unnecessary war and suffered for following the pacifist message of Rabbi Jesus and others. For non-participation, many Quakers had the sources of their livelihood seized from them \u2013 horses, cows, furniture, etc. A Quaker Fund for Sufferings Committee shared the costs of these seizures and worked to reimburse those [&hellip;]<\/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-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}