{"id":188156,"date":"2010-11-30T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/30\/in-the-annals-of-the-unsurprising\/"},"modified":"2010-11-30T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T03:15:00","slug":"in-the-annals-of-the-unsurprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/30\/in-the-annals-of-the-unsurprising\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Annals of the Unsurprising\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 10 month long Pentagon study shows that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-dadt-survey-20101201,0,4018508.story\">overwhelming majority of those serving in the military have no problem with repealing Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>&#8220;We are convinced the U.S. military can make this change, even during this time of war,&#8221; the Defense Department report concludes, noting that 70% of the tens of thousands of military personnel and family members surveyed predicted there would be &#8220;positive, mixed or no effect&#8221; from allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This won&#8217;t stop Republicans from blocking a repeal though, because pandering to a small, but vocal, minority of bigots is how they play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10 month long Pentagon study shows that the overwhelming majority of those serving in the military have no problem with repealing Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell: &#8220;We are convinced the U.S. military can make this change, even during this time of war,&#8221; the Defense Department report concludes, noting that 70% of the tens of thousands &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,1020,1030,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-legislation","category-lgbtq","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188156"}],"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=188156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}