{"id":20881,"date":"2018-08-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20881"},"modified":"2018-08-24T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T00:43:09","slug":"12-things-to-know-about-crazy-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20881","title":{"rendered":"12 Things to Know About Crazy Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lucas Reilly and Mental Floss present 12 Things to Know About Crazy Horse<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

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1. \u201cCRAZY HORSE\u201d WAS NOT HIS FIRST GIVEN NAME.<\/strong>
\nBorn around 1840 to Lakota parents, Crazy Horse was originally named Cha-O-Ha, or Among the Trees. (His mother, however, insisted on calling him \u201cCurly.\u201d) When Cha-O-Ha reached maturity, he was given the name held by his father and grandfather\u2014Ta-Sunko-Witko, or Crazy Horse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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9. HIS PERFORMANCE AT THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN WAS LEGENDARY.<\/strong>
\nAnd we mean legendary\u2014nobody is sure what, exactly, Crazy Horse did. But there are rumors. An Arapaho warrior named Water Man said Crazy Horse \u201cwas the bravest man I ever saw. He rode closest to the soldiers, yelling to his warriors. All the soldiers were shooting at him, but he was never hit.\u201d Another Native American soldier said, \u201cThe greatest fighter in the whole battle was Crazy Horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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12. IF COMPLETED, THE CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL COULD BE THE WORLD’S LARGEST SCULPTURE.<\/strong>
\nUnder construction since 1948, the Crazy Horse Memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, the Oglala Lakota chief in the late 1930s, as a response to Mount Rushmore. Today, the memorial\u2014built by a non-profit that refuses government funding\u2014is still incomplete. When it is finished, the monument carved into the side of South Dakota\u2019s Thunderhead Mountain will stand 563 feet high.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucas Reilly and Mental Floss present 12 Things to Know About Crazy Horse.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 1. \u201cCRAZY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20882,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions\/20882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}