Previously the status for a Post (or other post_types) was only exposed under the `edit` context, which doesn't really make much sense considering we support querying by post status without authentication. Originally introduced in v2.0 beta 1: 69f617d749
without any explanation in the commit message.
Props dhanendran, jnylen0, rachelbaker.
Fixes #39466.
git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@40080 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82