{"id":183432,"date":"2013-03-04T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/04\/this-should-get-interesting\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T02:34:00","slug":"this-should-get-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/04\/this-should-get-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"This Should Get Interesting\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123338422\">nominated General Michelle Johnson as superintendent of the Air Force Academy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The president of the United States nominated Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson for the appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and for assignment to serve as Air Force Academy&#8217;s 19th superintendent.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">If confirmed by the Senate, Johnson would become the first woman to hold the position.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Currently serving as NATO&#8217;s deputy chief of staff for operations and intelligence, Johnson is a 1981 distinguished graduate from the Academy where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in operations research. She was the first female cadet wing commander and the first female Rhodes Scholar from the Academy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There have been a lot of problems with  Air Force Academy with regard to religious intolerance, even by the standards of an increasingly Evangelical officer corps in the US Military more generally.<\/p>\n<p>Given that it&#8217;s located in the &#8220;Evangelical Mecca&#8221; of Colorado Springs, it&#8217;s the home of Focus on the Family, this is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering how the institution is going to handle a woman in charge, particularly when she has been appointed by the bogeyman of the religious right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has nominated General Michelle Johnson as superintendent of the Air Force Academy: The president of the United States nominated Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson for the appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and for assignment to serve as Air Force Academy&#8217;s 19th superintendent.If confirmed by the Senate, Johnson would become the first woman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}