{"id":132188,"date":"2021-11-17T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=132188"},"modified":"2021-11-17T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:24:45","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-bernard-law-monty-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=132188","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Bernard Law (Monty) Montgomery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I told a senior officer that I must have a new head gunner, he remarked that the present man was a delightful person and was also a golf champion. I agreed he was delightful, but added that unfortunately the game we were about to play was not golf.\u201d \u2015 Bernard Law (Monty) Montgomery 17 November 1887 \u2013 24 March 1976<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Montgomery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/220px-General_Sir_Bernard_Montgomery_in_England_1943_TR1037_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I told a senior officer that I must have a new head gunner, he remarked that the present man was a delightful person and was also a golf champion. I agreed he was delightful, but added that unfortunately the game we were about to play was not golf.\u201d \u2015 Bernard Law (Monty) Montgomery 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","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":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/220px-General_Sir_Bernard_Montgomery_in_England_1943_TR1037_cropped.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132190,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132188\/revisions\/132190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}