{"id":1562,"date":"2014-08-25T06:16:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=1562"},"modified":"2015-05-23T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T18:43:37","slug":"dr-john-gregory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=1562","title":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s Legacy to his Daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. John Gregory (1724-1773) was a Sottish physician, moralist, and medical writer, whose <em>Father&#8217;s Legacy to His Daughters<\/em>, written in 1761 on the death of his wife, became a bestseller when it was published in 1774 by his son. He was a friend and first cousin of Barbara Gregory Lowther.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1563\" style=\"width: 567px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/books.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1563\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1563 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/books.jpg\" alt=\"books\" width=\"557\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/books.jpg 557w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/books-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Books, there is no impropriety in your reading history, or cultivating any art or science to which genius or accident lead you.&#8221; From Dr. John Gregory&#8217;s <em>A Legacy to His Daughters<\/em>, written in 1761.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr. John Gregory (1724-1773) was a Sottish physician, moralist, and medical writer, whose Father&#8217;s Legacy to His Daughters, written in 1761 on the death of his wife, became a bestseller when it was published in 1774 by his son. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=1562\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1566,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4M6TH-pc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1562\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}