{"id":659164,"date":"2010-02-09T13:12:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76182"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:12:43","slug":"dadt-gay-army-lieutenant-recalled-to-active-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/659164","title":{"rendered":"DADT: Gay Army Lieutenant Recalled to Active Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army Lt. Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and Arabic translator who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/05\/07\/dan-choi-fired-gay-arabic_n_199592.html\">famously challenged &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell&#8217; last year<\/a>, has been recalled to active duty, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/News\/Daily_News\/2010\/02\/09\/Dan_Choi_Back_in_Active_Duty\/\">according to The Advocate<\/a>. That&#8217;s a strong sign that even ahead of a full repeal of the so-called gay ban, proceeding at <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75542\/mullen-and-gates-forcefully-back-repeal-of-militarys-gay-ban\">a deliberate, year-long pace advocated by the Pentagon&#8217;s top leadership<\/a>, relaxed enforcement of the policy is already in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Lt. Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and Arabic translator who famously challenged &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell&#8217; last year, has been recalled to active duty, according to The Advocate. That&#8217;s a strong sign that even ahead of a full repeal of the so-called gay ban, proceeding at a deliberate, year-long pace advocated by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LtG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}