{"id":266187,"date":"2010-02-02T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75540"},"modified":"2010-02-02T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:43:54","slug":"mccain-on-%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/266187","title":{"rendered":"McCain on \u2018Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good catch by John Aravosis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2010\/02\/john-mccain-on-dadt-in-1996.html\">resurrecting Sen. John McCain&#8217;s (R-Ariz.) 2006 position<\/a> on &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;: &#8220;[T]he day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, Senator, we ought to change the policy, then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it because those leaders in the military are the ones we give the responsibility to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not quite McCain&#8217;s position today, as military leaders inform him that, yes, they want to change the policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good catch by John Aravosis, resurrecting Sen. John McCain&#8217;s (R-Ariz.) 2006 position on &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;: &#8220;[T]he day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, Senator, we ought to change the policy, then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it because those leaders in the military are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}