{"id":162188,"date":"2023-06-26T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=162188"},"modified":"2023-06-26T10:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:13:52","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-chesty-puller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=162188","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Chesty Puller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Point, VI&#8230;Lewis Burwell &#8220;Chesty&#8221; Puller June 26, 1898 \u2013 October 11, 1971.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chesty_Puller\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-162189 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/220px-Chesty-puller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always believed that no officer\u2019s life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear\u2026officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right, they\u2019re on our left, they\u2019re on our right, they\u2019re in front of us, they\u2019re behind us\u2026they can\u2019t get away this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe make generals today on the basis of their ability to write a damned letter. Those kinds of men can\u2019t get us ready for war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld Breed? New Breed? There\u2019s not a damn bit of difference as long as it\u2019s the Marine breed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPain is weakness leaving the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHit hard, hit fast, hit often.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Point, VI&#8230;Lewis Burwell &#8220;Chesty&#8221; Puller June 26, 1898 \u2013 October 11, 1971. \u201cI\u2019ve always believed that no officer\u2019s life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear\u2026officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact.\u201d \u201cAll right, they\u2019re on our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162189,"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-162188","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\/2023\/06\/220px-Chesty-puller.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162188","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=162188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162190,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162188\/revisions\/162190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}