{"id":39078,"date":"2026-02-16T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=39078"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:48:04","slug":"president-george-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=39078","title":{"rendered":"President George Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/washington-portrait-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39081 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/washington-portrait-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1084\" height=\"1750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/washington-portrait-1.jpg 1084w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/washington-portrait-1-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/washington-portrait-1-634x1024.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/washington-portrait-1-768x1240.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/washington-portrait-1-951x1536.jpg 951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1084px) 100vw, 1084px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xdmh292 x15dsfln x140p0ai x1gufx9m x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1yc453h x1lliihq xzsf02u xlh3980 xvmahel x1x9mg3 xo1l8bm\" dir=\"auto\">This is the famous &#8220;Lansdowne portrait&#8221; of President Washington by Gilbert Stuart. Stuart painted 3 famous portraits of Washington (and Stuart followed up by painting many copies of the originals due to lots of requests). The Lansdowne portrait is named for the Marquise of Lansdowne, former British Prime Minister and recipient of this painting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xdmh292 x15dsfln x140p0ai x1gufx9m x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1yc453h x1lliihq xzsf02u xlh3980 xvmahel x1x9mg3 xo1l8bm\" dir=\"auto\">The third Monday in February is celebrated as &#8220;Presidents Day&#8221;, and also as Washington&#8217;s Birthday. He was born on February 22, 1732, in the British-ruled colony of Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pafa.org\/museum\/collection\/item\/george-washington-lansdowne-portrait\">More about Gilbert Stuart and his portrait&#8217;s of Washington<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the famous &#8220;Lansdowne portrait&#8221; of President Washington by Gilbert Stuart. Stuart painted 3 famous portraits of Washington (and Stuart followed up by painting many copies of the originals due to lots of requests). The Lansdowne portrait is named &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=39078\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39083,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39078\/revisions\/39083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}