{"id":795,"date":"2002-12-04T03:44:46","date_gmt":"2002-12-04T19:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/04\/pentagon-recruitment-tactics\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:46:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:46:39","slug":"pentagon-recruitment-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/04\/pentagon-recruitment-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon recruitment tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  High school students nationwide may be surprised to know that the Pentagon knows their name, address and phone number.<\/p>\n<p>  A provision of a new federal education law requires high schools to hand over the information for recruiting purposes, or risk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/headlines\/?ArID=53696&amp;SecID=2\" title=\"Schools required to send Pentagon information\">losing federal funds<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/#90011000\" title=\"Pentagon 0wnz public schools\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just freaky. I suppose I can <em>kind of<\/em> understand that school rosters would be a prime source for recruiting people (though I&#8217;d prefer that the government at least waited until people were 18, and just stuck to colleges), but threatening to withold funding if they don&#8217;t get the rosters? That&#8217;s just ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school students nationwide may be surprised to know that the Pentagon knows their name, address and phone number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}