{"id":16425,"date":"2012-11-27T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T08:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=16425"},"modified":"2012-11-26T22:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T06:54:43","slug":"general-custer-wasnt-actually-a-general-during-his-last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/general-custer-wasnt-actually-a-general-during-his-last-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;General&#8221; Custer Wasn&#8217;t Actually a General During His &#8220;Last Stand&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/custer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16566\" title=\"custer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/custer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/custer.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/custer-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em>Text Version:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWe all know George Armstrong Custer as &#8220;General Custer&#8221;. However, he was only a General for a brief period after being given a field promotion at the age of 23 to &#8220;Brigadier General&#8221; from &#8220;Captain&#8221;, shortly before the battle of Gettysburg. Needless to say from the timing of the promotion, he didn&#8217;t keep this rank long; after the war, he was given back his rank of &#8220;Captain&#8221;. At the time of his death, he was ranked at Lieutenant Colonel.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Version: We all know George Armstrong Custer as &#8220;General Custer&#8221;. However, he was only a General for a brief period after being given a field promotion at the age of 23 to &#8220;Brigadier General&#8221; from &#8220;Captain&#8221;, shortly before the battle of Gettysburg. Needless to say from the timing of the promotion, he didn&#8217;t keep this rank long; after the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[3134],"class_list":["post-16425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-general-custer-fact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16555,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425\/revisions\/16555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}