{"id":7313,"date":"2026-09-19T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:47:47","slug":"president-washingtons-last-speech-to-nation-1796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7313","title":{"rendered":"President Washington&#8217;s Last Address to the Nation &#8211; 1796"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13434\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13434\" class=\"wp-image-13434 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Washington-George-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"George Washington\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Washington<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>President George Washington gave his farewell address to the nation in 1796<\/strong>. First printed in the newspaper <em>American Daily Advertiser,<\/em>\u00a0the speech\u00a0was titled, &#8220;The Address of General Washington To The People of The United States on his declining of the Presidency of the United States.&#8221; \u00a0It was reprinted almost immediately in many other newspapers and somewhat re-titled Washington&#8217;s Farewell Address. Children could read a transcript of his speech at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourdocuments.gov\/doc.php?flash=true&amp;doc=15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Farewell Address<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President George Washington gave his farewell address to the nation in 1796. First printed in the newspaper American Daily Advertiser,\u00a0the speech\u00a0was titled, &#8220;The Address of General Washington To The People of The United States on his declining of the Presidency of the United States.&#8221; \u00a0It was reprinted almost immediately in many other newspapers and somewhat <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7313' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5869,5579,5867,5865,5868],"class_list":["post-7313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-the-address-of-general-washington-to-the-people-of-the-united-states-on-his-declining-of-the-presidency-of-the-united-states","tag-5579","tag-american-daily-advertiser","tag-september-19","tag-washingtons-farewell-address","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7313"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29728,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions\/29728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}