{"id":12386,"date":"2013-01-04T05:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2019-07-08T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T20:40:53","slug":"seventy-years-later-they-confused-him-with-a-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/seventy-years-later-they-confused-him-with-a-pickup-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventy Years Later, They Confused Him With A Pickup Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> book review for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444032404578010670438848136.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making &#8216;Patton&#8217;<\/a><\/em>, the reviewer coins a new nickname for General George S. Patton:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Offstage, but ever present, is Gen. George S. Patton, &#8220;Old Guts and Glory,&#8221; the very real figure behind the semi-fictional Hollywood concoction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>General George S. Patton was nicknamed <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/book-report-general-george-patton-old-blood-and-guts-by-alden-hatch-1950-2006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Old Blood and Guts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Old Guts and Glory?  I think that&#8217;s Sam Elliot.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmPj8S1R55w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent Wall Street Journal book review for Making &#8216;Patton&#8217;, the reviewer coins a new nickname for General George S. Patton: Offstage, but ever present, is Gen. George S. Patton, &#8220;Old Guts and Glory,&#8221; the very real figure behind the semi-fictional Hollywood concoction. General George S. Patton was nicknamed Old Blood and Guts. Old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24765,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}