{"id":8333,"date":"2010-02-03T07:35:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=8333"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:56:13","slug":"comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2010\/02\/03\/comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3515,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2010\\\/02\\\/02\\\/interview-with-my-brother-in-iraq-about-dont-ask-dont-tell#comment-3346642&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100418172655\\\/http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com:80\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2010\\\/02\\\/02\\\/interview-with-my-brother-in-iraq-about-dont-ask-dont-tell&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 20:41:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:42:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 12:21:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 12:21:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3516,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2010\\\/02\\\/02\\\/interview-with-my-brother-in-iraq-about-dont-ask-dont-tell&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100418172655\\\/http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com:80\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2010\\\/02\\\/02\\\/interview-with-my-brother-in-iraq-about-dont-ask-dont-tell&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 20:41:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:42:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 12:21:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 12:21:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Countries that forbid gays in their military: Cuba, China, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Jamaica, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela, Yemen, the USA.<\/p>\n<p>  Countries that allow gays to serve in their military: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, the Philippines, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>  Which list would you rather be associated with?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2010\/02\/02\/interview-with-my-brother-in-iraq-about-dont-ask-dont-tell#comment-3346642\" title=\"Slog: Fnarf: Countries that forbid gays...\">Fnarf<\/a>, in a comment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2010\/02\/02\/interview-with-my-brother-in-iraq-about-dont-ask-dont-tell\" title=\"Slog: A Conversation with My Brother in Iraq about Don't Ask, Don't Tell\">Slog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries that forbid gays in their military: Cuba, China, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Jamaica, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela, Yemen, the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}