{"id":69204,"date":"2016-12-02T11:49:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69204"},"modified":"2016-12-02T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:49:47","slug":"white-house-endorses-draft-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69204","title":{"rendered":"White House endorses draft for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/12\/01\/obama-supports-registering-women-military-draft\/90449708\/\">USATODAY<\/a> reports that the President has endorsed registering women for the draft. A day late and a dollar short;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House had previously expressed neutrality on the controversy, but took a position in a statement to USA TODAY on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But the timing of Obama&#8217;s support makes it mostly symbolic, coming in the final weeks of his presidency and the day before the House will vote on a defense policy bill that strips a Senate-passed provision to add women to Selective Service.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But Obama believes adding women to the draft would serve two purposes: showing a commitment to gender equality throughout the armed services, and fostering a sense of public service that comes from requiring draft registration as a ritual of adulthood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What with the transgender issue, I wonder if a person born a man would be able to avoid the draft registration as it currently exists by claiming to identify as a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USATODAY reports that the President has endorsed registering women for the draft. A day late and &hellip; <a title=\"White House endorses draft for women\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69204\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White House endorses draft for women<\/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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69204","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=69204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}