I read through this post: http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/how-to-call-acf-fields-from-my-functions-php-file/
I tried using something like $state = get_field('state', $post->ID);
inside functions.php, but it still returned null.
So then I created veterans_functions.php in my theme’s root dir and included that same code, used include_once
in my pages where I wanted to use those variables, and now it works. However, on my archive and index pages each veteran listed there is populated by the data of the most recently added veteran…