{"id":3676,"date":"2013-04-30T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T07:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2013-04-30T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T07:55:31","slug":"first-battle-of-manassasbull-run-which-should-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/04\/first-battle-of-manassasbull-run-which-should-it-be\/","title":{"rendered":"First Battle of Manassas\/Bull Run;  Which Should it Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3677\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reflectionsgallerytn.com\/images\/troiani\/first_at_manassas_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3677\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3677\" alt=\"First Manassas\/Bull Run\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/first_at_manassas_lg.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/first_at_manassas_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/first_at_manassas_lg-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Manassas\/Bull Run<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This post is more in the nature of a question. \u00c2\u00a0I am currently putting together a post on the First Battle of Manassas\/Bull Run. \u00c2\u00a0Typically, those from the South refer to the battle as First Manassas and the North as First Bull Run. I personally like First Manassas both because I am from the South and I just think the name rolls off the tongue better. \u00c2\u00a0I have to admit though that First Bull Run is more descriptive as that creek bisects the battlefield while Manassas is just the nearest decent sized town to the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My question is: \u00c2\u00a0What should the battle be named; First Manassas or First Bull Run and why do you think that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please answer in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is more in the nature of a question. \u00c2\u00a0I am currently putting together a post on the First Battle of Manassas\/Bull Run. \u00c2\u00a0Typically, those from the South refer to the battle as First Manassas and the North as&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/04\/first-battle-of-manassasbull-run-which-should-it-be\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1224,460],"tags":[1027,1020,742,295],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-warfare","category-military-strategy","tag-american-history","tag-american-military-history","tag-battle-naming","tag-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}