{"id":35898,"date":"2012-11-27T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_laura_cannon_on_the_military-no_sex_permission_to_speak_fr\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:00:13","slug":"washington_post_laura_cannon_on_the_military-no_sex_permission_to_speak_fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35898","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Laura Cannon on the Military&#8211;No sex? Permission to speak freely, Sir."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Pointers are human beings, even those with names such as David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell. I think I have the standing to make this declaration, because I\u2019m a fellow graduate. West Point is long on molding military officers, but a bit short on humanity. Its mission statement stresses the intent to commit every graduate to a career of professional excellence and service, embodying the values of \u201cduty, honor and country.\u201d\u009d How does West Point do that?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how: Rules! Hundreds upon hundreds of rules that govern every facet of human conduct imaginable, including my favorite: no sex in the barracks&#8230;.[Yet] whether it\u2019s because love (or lust) conquers all, or because ambitious Type-A\u2019s stop at nothing in the face of adversity, cadets soon become experts at evading the no-sex rule&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/no-sex-permission-to-speak-freely-sir\/2012\/11\/23\/c0232650-3433-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Pointers are human beings, even those with names such as David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell. I think I have the standing to make this declaration, because I\u2019m a fellow graduate. West Point is long on molding military officers, but<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35898\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,143,168,104,125,112,34,126,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-men","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-women","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}