{"id":1571,"date":"2017-07-28T08:38:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2017-09-04T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T13:43:16","slug":"dictum-by-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"Dictum By Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving aside if Twitter as a platform should be a valid communication method for policy changes in the federal government, the actual\u00a0<em>content<\/em> of Trump&#8217;s tweet &#8212; if we are banning transsexual individuals from serving in the military because of\u00a0<em>medical expenses<\/em> &#8230; wouldn&#8217;t it make more sense to reverse the policy of covering said medical procedures in the military health care plan? While they&#8217;re at it &#8212; if they want to save money on health care &#8212; stop covering all sorts of other non-essential medical care too. Like, say, ED treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving aside if Twitter as a platform should be a valid communication method for policy changes in the federal government, the actual\u00a0content of Trump&#8217;s tweet &#8212; if we are banning transsexual individuals from serving in the military because of\u00a0medical expenses &#8230; wouldn&#8217;t it make more sense to reverse the policy of covering said medical procedures &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-trans-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}