{"id":3380,"date":"2016-06-25T11:09:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T15:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2024-05-24T19:20:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T23:20:24","slug":"first-among-equals-how-george-washington-became-george-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/first-among-equals-how-george-washington-became-george-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"First Among Equals: How George Washington Became George Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Washington-Crossing-the-Delaware.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3381\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/first-among-equals-how-george-washington-became-george-washington\/washington-crossing-the-delaware\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Washington-Crossing-the-Delaware.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3874,2269\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Washington Crossing the Delaware\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Washington-Crossing-the-Delaware-300x176.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Washington-Crossing-the-Delaware-1024x600.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3381\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Washington-Crossing-the-Delaware-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Crossing the Delaware\" width=\"610\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Washington-Crossing-the-Delaware-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Washington-Crossing-the-Delaware-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Washington-Crossing-the-Delaware-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>George Washington was born to middling stock in Virginia in 1732. He was a &#8220;conventional Virginia provincial&#8221; whose world had a stable social order and agrarian political economy. A planter class led this stratified society. These gentlemen dressed, spoke, and behaved differently from others, and their mores owed much to the English motherland and to Europe. Young Washington aspired to enter this upper echelon&#8230; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine\/570781\/first-among-equals\/\">Read more at the Weekly Standard<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington was born to middling stock in Virginia in 1732. He was a &#8220;conventional Virginia provincial&#8221; whose world had a stable social order and agrarian political economy. A planter class led this stratified society. These gentlemen dressed, spoke, and behaved differently from others, and their mores owed much to the English motherland and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[73,136],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews-nonfiction","category-presidents","tag-the-weekly-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Sw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5377,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}