{"id":1000,"date":"2011-08-30T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/WFACnews2\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:25:52","slug":"the-tragic-death-of-the-military-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"The Tragic Death of the Military Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1002\" title=\"tsuggs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/WFACnews2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tsuggs.png\" alt=\"Tommy Suggs Pressing in Contest\" width=\"417\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">For most of the twentieth century, the press was the standard means by which the strength of an athlete, especially in weightlifting, was measured. \u201cHow much can you press?\u201d was the usual question directed by friends and fellow athletes to any young man who started training with weights\u2026 by the end of the century that the new query became \u201cHow much can you bench press?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From:\u00a0 <a title=\"The Tragic Death of the Military Press\" href=\"http:\/\/startingstrength.com\/index.php\/site\/the_tragic_death_of_the_military_press\">The Tragic Death of the Military Press in Olympic and World Championship Competition, 1928-1972<\/a> by John D. Fair, now available for download at <a title=\"Starting Strength\" href=\"http:\/\/startingstrength.com\" target=\"_blank\">StartingStrength.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the twentieth century, the press was the standard means by which the strength of an athlete, especially in weightlifting, was measured. \u201cHow much can you press?\u201d was the usual question directed by friends and fellow athletes to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/?p=1000\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wfac-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}