{"id":182484,"date":"2025-10-12T18:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=182484"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:57:02","slug":"on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=182484","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 23: Marcario Garc\u00eda is 1st Mexican American to earn Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 23, 1945, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marcario Garc\u00eda became the first Mexican American to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/2025\/08\/23\/On-This-Day-Marcario-Garca-is-1st-Mexican-American-to-earn-Medal-of-Honor\/6811755881547\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 23, 1945, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marcario Garc\u00eda became the first Mexican American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor.jpg",400,334,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor-300x251.jpg",300,251,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor.jpg",400,334,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor.jpg",400,334,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor.jpg",400,334,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor.jpg",400,334,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor.jpg",400,334,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor.jpg",400,334,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182484-on-this-day-aug-23-marcario-garcia-is-1st-mexican-american-to-earn-medal-of-honor.jpg",400,334,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}