{"id":48,"date":"2012-05-24T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franklin83.org\/?p=48"},"modified":"2014-11-11T16:46:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:46:33","slug":"father-and-son-master-masons-present-benjamin-franklin-program-by-pm-paul-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Father and Son Master Masons Present Benjamin Franklin Program by PM Paul Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_49\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/franklin83.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BF83.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49\" src=\"http:\/\/franklin83.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BF83-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bro. Glen Witt and Bro. Adam Witt demonstrate Benjamin Franklin's lightning bells experiment.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BF83-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BF83.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bro. Glen Witt and Bro. Adam Witt demonstrate Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s lightning bells experiment.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brother Glen Witt and his son, Brother Adam Witt, who are both Master Masons, presented a very well received program at a recent Brothers and Guests night meeting at BFL#83. The topic of the presentation was \u201cElectrical Experiments of Benjamin Franklin\u201d. Brother Glen has long been interested in electrical experiments, and demonstrated some of Franklin\u2019s innovations with some of his electrical equipment. He and Brother Adam also have a small library of books about Benjamin Franklin. Brother Adam gave a power point presentation about Franklin\u2019s general background and his specific interest in electricity. Franklin was largely self\u2013educated and received only Honorary degrees.<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Blackburn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Glen Witt and his son, Brother Adam Witt, who are both Master Masons, presented a very well received program at a recent Brothers and Guests night meeting at BFL#83. The topic of the presentation was \u201cElectrical Experiments of Benjamin Franklin\u201d. Brother Glen has long been interested in electrical experiments, and demonstrated some of Franklin\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">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":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kyYC-M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.franklin83.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}