{"id":907,"date":"2018-12-18T22:13:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T22:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=907"},"modified":"2018-12-18T22:13:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T22:13:02","slug":"blood-and-guts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/blood-and-guts\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood and Guts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">General George S. Patton is one of the most famous American generals in history. It can be argued that he was one of the proudest Americans to ever live. This is reflected in his many speeches but particularly his famous \u201cBlood and Guts\u201d speech where he addresses the men of the Third Army Division. Using rhetoric such as, \u201cWe have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons of bitches we\u2019re going up against. By God, I do!\u201d to describe how the American army is superior to the enemy [in this case the German]. While WWII is less of an example of American Exceptionalism than the Korean and Vietnam War, this attitude Patton has and the Allied victory further pushes the idea of American Exceptionalism into the American Public. This ideology would not be shaken until the Vietnam War.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_908\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-908\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/patton-300x150.png\" alt=\"General Patton \" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/patton-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/patton-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/patton-676x338.png 676w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/patton.png 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Patton posing for a photo<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General George S. Patton is one of the most famous American generals in history. It can be argued that he was one of the proudest Americans to ever live. This&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/blood-and-guts\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}