{"id":28945,"date":"2012-03-01T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28945"},"modified":"2012-03-01T19:51:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T23:51:13","slug":"bravery-is-not-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28945","title":{"rendered":"Bravery is not this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/mar\/1\/gay-marines-kiss-sparks-praise-anger\/?page=2\">Washington Times<\/a> reports that the media has gone apeshit over a gay kiss between two Marines as one returns from his overseas deployment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is TRUE bravery!\u201d reads one [comment on Facebook]. \u201cThe most insidious enemy we face in the struggle for equality is internalized homophobia. Kudos to any and every one who comes out for any and all to see!!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah all of you whiners who&#8217;ve been blown-up and shot and carried your friends on your back to get them out of the line of fire, or dragged them from burning vehicles with ammunition zinging around your head, this is what true bravery looks like (<strong>content warning &#8211; if you don&#8217;t want to see two men kissing, don&#8217;t click the &#8220;More&#8221; link. If you don&#8217;t want to see an iconic photo ruined by political correctness, don&#8217;t click the &#8220;More&#8221; link<\/strong>);<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gty_gay_marine_life_kiss_nt_120227_wblog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gty_gay_marine_life_kiss_nt_120227_wblog.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gty_gay_marine_life_kiss_nt_120227_wblog\" width=\"478\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gty_gay_marine_life_kiss_nt_120227_wblog.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gty_gay_marine_life_kiss_nt_120227_wblog-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I put it below the fold because I don&#8217;t want it on my front page until I write something else &#8211; that&#8217;s my choice, and in the current climate, who is going to call me brave? <\/p>\n<p>I have nothing against folks being as gay as they want to be in the privacy of their homes, but I&#8217;m not having it shoved down my throat with the media telling me what I should think about it. And equating it to the countless truly brave acts that I&#8217;ve witnessed and had recounted to me is enough to make me sick.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d tell you imbeciles to stick it in your ass, but, well, you know&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that the media has gone apeshit over a gay kiss between two &hellip; <a title=\"Bravery is not this\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28945\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bravery is not this<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28945","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}