There was an associated post to this one that shed light on this answer. When registering the post type, I was not setting enough fields in the ‘supports’ array of the register_post_type
. Adding author, whatdayaknow, gives me the data I’m looking for.
Thanks to @milo for being on the right path!
register_post_type(self::POST_TYPE,
array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'description' => __(""),
'supports' => array(
'title', 'author'
),
)
)
NOTE: Post count in the User Accounts page is still 0 – but, the API is returning the data I want/need.