{"id":8368,"date":"2026-06-06T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:28:02","slug":"memorializing-german-lutheran-patriots-of-the-american-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=8368","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2026 Featured Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/02_LUT_40-2_Krueger_152-169.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width:900px;\" data-width=\"900\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">02_LUT_40-2_Krueger_152-169<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the nineteenth century, German Americans and their friends sought to<br \/>\nmemorialize the contributions of German Lutherans in the American Revolutionary War and the early republic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8372,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}