{"id":2523,"date":"2009-08-16T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T18:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2009-08-16T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T18:23:46","slug":"women-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/women-at-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Women at war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/16\/us\/16women.html?ref=global-home\">The New York Times<\/a> has a piece up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/16\/us\/16women.html?ref=global-home\">G.I. Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier as War Evolves<\/a>, which details the shift over the past 8 year of women into combat roles. I&#8217;ve read and heard about this dynamic for years, with two simultaneous wars and an economy until 2008 which had copious private sector opportunities, female labor was simply necessary to &#8220;get the job done.&#8221; Integration into combat roles is now a <i>fait accompli<\/i>. What I find ironic about this is that the proximate decisions were made by, and supported by, individuals who were purportedly conservative. Those decisions being <i>both<\/i> foreign wars, <i>and<\/i>, taking conscription off the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a piece up, G.I. Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier as War Evolves, which details the shift over the past 8 year of women into combat roles. I&#8217;ve read and heard about this dynamic for years, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/women-at-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[311,1131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}