{"id":370,"date":"2010-07-02T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T17:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/?p=370"},"modified":"2010-07-02T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T17:51:39","slug":"documents-to-be-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/2010\/07\/02\/documents-to-be-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents to Be Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A public reading<\/strong> of the Declaration of Independence, the British reply to the Declaration of September 1776, King George III&#8217;s speech to Parliament of October 1776, and the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution will take place on Sunday, July 4th, at 1:30 p.m. outside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcma.org\/\" title=\" \">Williams College Museum of Art<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtfestival.org\/\" title=\" \">Williamstown Theatre Festival<\/a> actress Jessica Hecht (appearing in <em>Our Town<\/em> from July 28th) will read the Declaration and Preamble, while the British texts will be read by Michael Coglan, the Festival&#8217;s Associate General Manager. The Chapin Library&#8217;s collection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/chapin.williams.edu\/exhibits\/founding.html\" title=\" \">Founding Documents of the United States<\/a> is on display at the College Museum until the completion of the Stetson-Sawyer project a few years from now. &ndash; <span style=\"color: #800000\">WGH<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public reading of the Declaration of Independence, the British reply to the Declaration of September 1776, King George III&#8217;s speech to Parliament of October 1776, and the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution will take place on Sunday, July 4th, at 1:30 p.m. outside the Williams College Museum of Art. Williamstown Theatre Festival actress Jessica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}