{"id":466,"date":"2026-05-31T20:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=466"},"modified":"2026-05-31T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:47:04","slug":"teenagers-in-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers in Command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Book of Mormon<\/em> says that Mormon was the general of the Nephite army at 16. That sounded highly improbable and certainly not something one would insert into a fictional story if one wanted to be believed. However, Alexander the Great first commanded an army in a military campaign at 16. <br><br>Here is a quote from Jacques Barsun&#8217;s cultural history entitled <em>From Dawn to Decadence<\/em>:<br><br>Teenagers&#8217; cultural contribution is more varied and better recorded , and the thought it brings to mind is the marked difference between earlier times and our own in the feeling about age&#8230;And in Castiglione&#8217;s manual of Renaissance manners, <em>The Courtier<\/em>, one of the engaging figures is Francesco della Rovera, nephew of the pope, Lord General at 17, and soon to be &#8220;General of Rome.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book of Mormon says that Mormon was the general of the Nephite army at 16. That sounded highly improbable and certainly not something one would insert into a fictional story if one wanted to be believed. However, Alexander the Great first commanded an army in a military campaign at 16. Here is a quote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}