{"id":143320,"date":"2026-02-16T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143320"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:31:17","slug":"george-washingtons-summary-of-the-real-story-of-the-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143320","title":{"rendered":"George Washington&#8217;s Summary of the real story of the American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>-&#8216;The unparalleled perseverance of the armies of the United States through almost every possible suffering and discouragement for the space of eight long years was a little short of a standing miracle.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n&#8211;George Washington as quoted in the Ken Burns series on the American Revolution<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This terracotta bust of George Washington was completed in 1785 by Jean-Antoine Houdon. \u2063Eleanor Parke Custis and her husband considered this bust &quot;the best representation of Gen. Washington&#39;s face they had ever seen.&quot; \u2063<br><br>Read more about the bust: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oDpn0aYJYC\">https:\/\/t.co\/oDpn0aYJYC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iEzZbLc54P\">pic.twitter.com\/iEzZbLc54P<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mount Vernon (@MountVernon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MountVernon\/status\/1784568299633738138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-&#8216;The unparalleled perseverance of the armies of the United States through almost every possible suffering and discouragement for the space of eight long years was a little short of a standing miracle.&#8217; &#8211;George Washington as quoted in the Ken Burns<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143320\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,133,106,616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-military-armed-forces","category-office-of-the-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143322,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143320\/revisions\/143322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}