{"id":18,"date":"2005-07-13T07:47:17","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T02:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2005-07-13T07:47:17","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T02:47:17","slug":"hey-teens-uncle-sam-wants-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/13\/hey-teens-uncle-sam-wants-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Teens! Uncle Sam Wants You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/index.mhtml?emx=x&#038;pid=5322\">TomDispatch &#8211; Tomgram: Nick Turse on Cyberstalking the Recruitable Teen<\/a> has a couple of articles on just how desperate the Pentagon is getting to persuade ignorant teens to join the military. From outright lies to carefully disguised teen marketing websites, the Bush Administration is so hard up for recruits that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do literally anything to deceive teens (and their parents) that the US military is a great and safe career choice. Can you say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cannon fodder\u00e2\u20ac\u009d boys and girls? I knew you could (okay, some of you will have to look it up first). As long as the military spends more time, money, and lives protecting the profit margins of Texaco and Halliburton than it does protecting the American people, military service will, unfortunately, continue to be a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dead end job\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot to mention, as I have argued before, an ethically problematic occupation for Neopagans.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TomDispatch &#8211; Tomgram: Nick Turse on Cyberstalking the Recruitable Teen has a couple of articles on just how desperate the Pentagon is getting to persuade ignorant teens to join the military. From outright lies to carefully disguised teen marketing websites, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/13\/hey-teens-uncle-sam-wants-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-politics","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}