{"id":197817,"date":"2008-01-09T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/09\/military-ignoring-dont-ask-dont-tell-at-least-until-you-come-home\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:56:00","slug":"military-ignoring-dont-ask-dont-tell-at-least-until-you-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/09\/military-ignoring-dont-ask-dont-tell-at-least-until-you-come-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Ignoring &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; At Least Until You Come Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually the soldier in question is suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/sns-ap-military-gays,1,6446015.story?track=rss&amp;ctrack=1&amp;cset=true\">the Military&#8217;s policies on gays serving may be changing<\/a>, because he told his CO&#8217;s that he was gay, and because he&#8217;s been out for years.<\/p>\n<p>Nope:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;This particular soldier&#8217;s unit only recently returned from the war to Fort Hood, Texas, so it&#8217;s premature to speculate on any future actions until the young man&#8217;s situation can be considered by his chain of command,&#8221; Boyce said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation:  Now that you&#8217;ve done your tour, and we no longer need you, you will be separated, you will have no benefits, and we want that enlistment bonus back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually the soldier in question is suggesting that the Military&#8217;s policies on gays serving may be changing, because he told his CO&#8217;s that he was gay, and because he&#8217;s been out for years. Nope: &#8220;This particular soldier&#8217;s unit only recently returned from the war to Fort Hood, Texas, so it&#8217;s premature to speculate on any &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1030,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-lgbtq","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197817"}],"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=197817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}