{"id":39678,"date":"2011-09-20T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T14:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39678"},"modified":"2011-11-09T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:57:07","slug":"dont-askdont-tell-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/20\/dont-askdont-tell-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask\/Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; Is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of today, Don&#8217;t Ask\/Don&#8217;t Tell, the U.S. policy that allowed gays and lesbians to serve in the military only as long as they kept their sexual orientation a secret, is officially over. In honor of this milestone, here&#8217;s the official letter from top Army commanders to soldiers announcing the end of the policy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/DADTrepealletter.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39679\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/DADTrepealletter.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/official-notice-of-dadt-repeal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joe. My. God.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NPR posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/20\/140605121\/with-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell-an-era-ends\" target=\"_blank\">interviews with two men who worked hard for repea<\/a>l, and it&#8217;s worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today, Don&#8217;t Ask\/Don&#8217;t Tell, the U.S. policy that allowed gays and lesbians to serve in the military only as long as they kept their sexual orientation a secret, is officially over. In honor of this milestone, here&#8217;s the official letter from top Army commanders to soldiers announcing the end of the policy: Via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[283,54,309],"class_list":["post-39678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39681,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39678\/revisions\/39681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}