{"id":3939,"date":"2013-08-23T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T08:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2013-08-23T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T08:46:43","slug":"hellsterns-rule-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/08\/hellsterns-rule-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellstern&#8217;s Rule of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my freshman year Western Civ professors hit the nail on the head when he promulgated what he called &#8220;<em>Hellstern&#8217;s Rule of History<\/em>&#8221; to us, a rule I will never forget. <strong>&#8220;Them thats got the guns make the rules&#8221;<\/strong> You can argue with the implications of that rule but you cannot argue that it is not true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my freshman year Western Civ professors hit the nail on the head when he promulgated what he called &#8220;Hellstern&#8217;s Rule of History&#8221; to us, a rule I will never forget. &#8220;Them thats got the guns make the rules&#8221;&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/08\/hellsterns-rule-of-history\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[342,776,361],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-history","tag-general-history-2","tag-historical-principles","tag-historical-theory","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","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=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}