{"id":28027,"date":"2011-12-21T18:06:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28027"},"modified":"2011-12-21T18:06:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T22:06:58","slug":"laugh-or-cry-there-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28027","title":{"rendered":"Laugh or Cry&#8230; There It Is!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/blogpost\/post\/navy-kiss-seals-the-year-of-dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal\/2011\/12\/21\/gIQA9sor9O_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost\" target=\"_blank\">Navy kiss seals the year of \u2018Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u2019 repeal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have a late-breaking nomination for image of the year. This photograph would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. With the repeal of \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d, Petty Officer 2nd Class <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/2-women-share-1st-kiss-after-us-navy-ship-returns-to-virginia-a-1st-since-repeal-of-ban\/2011\/12\/21\/gIQA3aaU9O_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marissa Gaeta<\/a> was able to win a raffle that gave her the first off-the-ship kiss, a Navy tradition, with her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_606w\/WashingtonPost\/Content\/Blogs\/blogpost\/Images\/APTOPIX_US_Navy_Gay_Kiss_04ee7.jpg?uuid=CgHswCwQEeGZUlXZCk4tbQ\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAssociated Press (Brian J. Clark) When the couple began dating, they had to hide their status under the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/post\/dont-ask-dont-tell-ends-troops-mark-the-day-in-different-ways\/2011\/09\/20\/gIQAsw1KiK_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell<\/a>\u201d policy. The 17-year-old policy was repealed in September. On Wednesday, in front of Gaeta\u2019s entire ship and a cheering crowd, the two women made history as the first same-sex couple to share the coveted kiss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy kiss seals the year of \u2018Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u2019 repeal We have a late-breaking nomination &hellip; <a title=\"Laugh or Cry&#8230; There It Is!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28027\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laugh or Cry&#8230; There It Is!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}