{"id":31769,"date":"2010-05-27T20:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123206824"},"modified":"2010-05-27T20:05:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:05:40","slug":"adm-mullen-speaks-to-petersons-military-in-no-holds-barred-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=31769","title":{"rendered":"Adm. Mullen speaks to Peterson&#8217;s military in no holds barred talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123206824\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100526-F-1688D-004.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There was no topic off limits for Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as he spoke to military personnel here May 26.<\/p>\n<p>The top servicemember spoke of change, suicide, social media, the transition out of Iraq and long-term plans in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He even joked, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t anyone going to address the elephant in the room?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The elephant being his recent, and highly publicized, support for the elimination of the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; law, which prevents openly gay people from serving in the military.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123206824\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}