{"id":433796,"date":"2010-03-16T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79351"},"modified":"2010-03-16T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:38:59","slug":"petraeus-says-%e2%80%98the-time-has-come%e2%80%99-to-consider-repealing-%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/433796","title":{"rendered":"Petraeus Says \u2018The Time Has Come\u2019 to Consider Repealing \u2018Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/79290\/will-petraeus-reject-dont-ask-dont-tell-tomorrow\">Testifying this morning before the Senate Armed Services Committee<\/a>, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia, has yet to deliver what he said was an &#8220;eight-minute statement&#8221; on his views about repealing &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221; But in something of a preview, he said &#8220;the time has come&#8221; to consider repealing the ban on open gay military service, caveating it by saying that a thorough and &#8220;thoughtful&#8221; study of the issue needs to consider the effects on a military at war. It&#8217;s an issue Petraeus said defies &#8220;sound bites,&#8221; but that&#8217;s what we have right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testifying this morning before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia, has yet to deliver what he said was an &#8220;eight-minute statement&#8221; on his views about repealing &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell.&#8221; But in something of a preview, he said &#8220;the time has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433796","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\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}