{"id":40918,"date":"2014-01-02T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40918"},"modified":"2014-01-02T06:29:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T12:29:49","slug":"40918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40918","title":{"rendered":"Devaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I predicted back when Obama first announced this, the military is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/12\/27\/257363943\/marines-most-female-recruits-dont-meet-new-pullup-standard\" target=\"_blank\">watering down the standards<\/a>\u00a0so women can pass the test to serve in combat roles.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t do 3 pull-ups?\u00a0 For crying out loud, I can probably do 3 pull-ups and I\u2019m 35 years older and 150 pounds heavier than these women. Hope to God we never need them do to anything strenuous to defend the country.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty sad day for the Marines when boosting your own fat ass over an obsticle is deemed a \u201cteam lift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All that&#8217;s true.  But it could be worse.  If the military adopts Common Core, Marines will be trained to run toward what they can reasonably infer is the sound of gunfire.  And Naval Aviators will merely have to show they reasonably tried to get the hook onto the third wire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: As I predicted back when Obama first announced this, the military is\u00a0watering down the standards\u00a0so women can pass the test to serve in combat roles. Can\u2019t do 3 pull-ups?\u00a0 For crying out loud, I can probably do 3 pull-ups and I\u2019m 35 years older and 150 pounds heavier than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40920,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918\/revisions\/40920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}