{"id":36940,"date":"2013-01-24T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pentagon_to_end_ban_on_women_in_front-line_combat\/"},"modified":"2013-01-24T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T16:45:22","slug":"pentagon_to_end_ban_on_women_in_front-line_combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36940","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Pentagon to end ban on women in front-line combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the military&#8217;s ban on women serving in combat, a senior Pentagon official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The move could open hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and elite commando jobs to women.<\/p>\n<p>It overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to small ground-combat units.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-21172033\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the military&#8217;s ban on women serving in combat, a senior Pentagon official has said. The move could open hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and elite commando jobs to women. It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36940\">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":[39,40,143,151,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-politics-in-general","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940","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=36940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}