{"id":13161,"date":"2021-03-11T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13161"},"modified":"2021-03-11T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:49:06","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13161","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I signed up to serve my country at 18. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TuckerCarlson<\/a> did not. <\/p>\n<p>I served with women who risked their lives to protect our country. Tucker did not.<\/p>\n<p>While he denigrates those who serve, our military remains the best fighting force due, in large part, to our amazing servicewomen.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rep. Mikie Sherrill (@RepSherrill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSherrill\/status\/1370074089994477571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>FOX News commentator Tucker Carlson triggered a lot of people yesterday with a screed objecting to women in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Ho-hum.  So far as I&#8217;m concerned, any woman who meets the physical and mental standards for a particular job, and wants that job, ought to be eligible for it.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting to me about Carlson&#8217;s original remarks, and the indignant howling about Carlson&#8217;s remarks, is that nobody has mentioned a female distinctive that is vital to post-war reconstruction: Woman can bear children.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a small matter or consideration.  It probably figures into the Biblical injunction against homosexuality, written at a time when people lived in tribes and population replenishment was vital to the survival of the tribe.  And the post-World War II population growth was much slower in the occupied nations &#8212; thanks to the relative decline in men <i>and<\/i> women &#8212; than in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly isn&#8217;t so important a consideration today as it once was, when there is a relatively large population &#8212; but it <i>undoubtedly<\/i> is a factor in the historic injunction against women bearing arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up to serve my country at 18. @TuckerCarlson did not. I served with women who risked their lives to protect our country. Tucker did not. While he denigrates those who serve, our military remains the best fighting force &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13163,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13161\/revisions\/13163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}