{"id":2862,"date":"2024-11-23T22:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T22:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/canadas-first-woman-armed-forces-chief-i-cant-believe-we-have-to-justify-women-in-combat\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T22:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T22:20:41","slug":"canadas-first-woman-armed-forces-chief-i-cant-believe-we-have-to-justify-women-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/canadas-first-woman-armed-forces-chief-i-cant-believe-we-have-to-justify-women-in-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s first woman armed forces chief: &#8216;I can\u2019t believe we have to justify women in combat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX &ndash; The first woman to head Canada&rsquo;s armed forces pushed back on renewed debate over women serving in combat roles related to President-elect Trump&rsquo;s pick for Defense secretary, calling it a distraction to force women to justify their contribution to defense and national security. Gen&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5006171-jennie-carignan-canada-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-women-combat\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX &ndash; The first woman to head Canada&rsquo;s armed forces pushed back on renewed debate over women serving in combat roles related to President-elect Trump&rsquo;s pick for Defense secretary, calling it a distraction to force women to justify their contribution to defense and national security. Gen&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}