{"id":22103,"date":"2010-09-29T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/medal_of_honor_recipients_credit_lessons_learned_in_large_households_for_fu\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T18:00:18","slug":"medal_of_honor_recipients_credit_lessons_learned_in_large_households_for_fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22103","title":{"rendered":"Medal of Honor recipients credit lessons learned in large households for future strength under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Charleston hosting 52 of the nation&#8217;s 87 surviving Medal of Honor men this week, a common thread among many in their ranks is that they came from large, working-class families where self- reliance, unit strength and attention to duty were learned at an early age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything depended on what you were supposed to do,&#8221; Williams said Tuesday, speaking of life on the cash-strapped cow farm. &#8220;If you didn&#8217;t get something done you got in trouble with the rest of the family,&#8221; he said, &#8220;not only with the mother and the father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And just like in the military, there was no questioning of work or orders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You did it because it had to be done,&#8221; said Williams, who along with Baker agreed that they excelled during critical moments on the battlefield probably because of the values instilled back home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/29\/family-values\">Read it all from the front page of the local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Charleston hosting 52 of the nation&#8217;s 87 surviving Medal of Honor men this week, a common thread among many in their ranks is that they came from large, working-class families where self- reliance, unit strength and attention to duty<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22103\">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":[39,40,54,101,143,149,133,597,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-children","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-history","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103","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=22103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}