{"id":9605,"date":"2011-02-25T02:02:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T07:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2011-02-23T00:15:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T05:15:10","slug":"general-washington-appoints-chaplains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/general-washington-appoints-chaplains\/","title":{"rendered":"General Washington Appoints Chaplains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting website over at GeneralWashington.net sponsors a sort of &#8216;living history&#8217; of George Washington&#8217;s life.\u00a0 The &#8220;blog&#8221; on the site follows the dates of Washington&#8217;s actual correspondence on those dates more than 200 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, it noted his order from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalwashington.net\/2011\/02\/head-quarters-cambridge-february-7-1776.html\">7 February 1776<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Continental Congress having been pleased to order, and direct, that there shall be one Chaplain to two Regiments, and that the pay of each Chaplain shall be <em>Thirty-three<\/em> dollars and <em>one third<\/em>, pr Kalendar Month&#8211;The Revd. Abiel Leonard is appointed Chaplain to the Regiment of Artillery, under the command of Col Knox, and to the 20th. Regiment, at present commanded by Lt. Col Durkee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/armychaplaincy.com\/2011\/02\/10\/general-washington-appoints-chaplains-to-the-army\/\">Army Chaplaincy blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting website over at GeneralWashington.net sponsors a sort of &#8216;living history&#8217; of George Washington&#8217;s life.\u00a0 The &#8220;blog&#8221; on the site follows the dates of Washington&#8217;s actual correspondence on those dates more than 200 years ago. A couple of weeks ago, it noted his order from 7 February 1776: The Continental Congress having been pleased to order, and direct, that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1480,5284,78,623,1481,2],"class_list":["post-9605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-abiel-leonard","tag-chaplain","tag-congress","tag-george-washington","tag-knox","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}