{"id":73,"date":"2025-06-06T05:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:28:28","slug":"june-16-1775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"June 16, 1775"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Mr. President,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tho\u2019 I am truly sensible of the high Honour done me in this Appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness\u00a0that my abilities &amp; Military experience may not be equal to the extensive &amp; important Trust: However, as the Congress desire it I will enter upon the momentous duty, &amp; exert every power I Possess in their service &amp; for the Support of the glorious Cause: I beg they will accept my most cordial thanks for this distinguished testimony of their Approbation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut lest some unlucky event should happen unfavourable to my reputation, I beg it may be rememberd by every Gentn in the room, that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think my self equal to the Command I am honoured with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>With these words, George Washington accepted his nomination for the role of Commander in Chief by the Second Continental Congress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mr. President, Tho\u2019 I am truly sensible of the high Honour done me in this Appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness\u00a0that my abilities &amp; Military experience may not be equal to the extensive &amp; important Trust: However, as the Congress desire it I will enter upon the momentous duty, &amp; exert every &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/?p=73\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;June 16, 1775&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa250worldcup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}