{"id":771,"date":"2004-03-16T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/conscientious_objector\/"},"modified":"2004-03-16T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T17:46:00","slug":"conscientious_objector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/conscientious_objector\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscientious Objector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an article <\/a> on a soldier who refuses to return to duty in Iraq for moral reasons. Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia is believed to be the first soldier to turn himself in after failing to report for duty in Iraq. Those involved in Mejia’s defense say he could face several years in prison.
\nMejia is not alone<\/a>:<\/p>\n

600 others are AWOL
\nFont speculated that whatever happens to his client would serve as a precedent for the estimated 600 soldiers who have gone AWOL to avoid service in Iraq. Some, like Mejia, have failed to return to Iraq after being granted temporarily leaves home and others have deserted before deploying overseas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a shame that rather than face criminal prosecution, these soldiers couldn’t simply sign up for graduate school or something and “work it out with the military<\/a>.”
\nIt’s great to have a “steady” leader whose example our troops can follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an article on a soldier who refuses to return to duty in Iraq for moral reasons. Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia is believed to be the first soldier to turn himself in after failing to report for duty in Iraq. Those involved in Mejia’s defense say he could face several years in prison. Mejia is […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}