{"id":81385,"date":"2021-11-15T00:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T08:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=81385"},"modified":"2021-11-15T00:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T08:25:15","slug":"harvey-milk-and-the-seamen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/11\/15\/harvey-milk-and-the-seamen\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Milk and the Seamen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our community has made enormous strides since I came out some three decades ago \u2013 a point driven home when I learned that the <em>US Navy <\/em>named a ship after <strong>Harvey Milk<\/strong>!&nbsp; The gay rights advocate was assassinated in 1978 at a time when the idea of being openly gay in the military was unfathomable.&nbsp; The naming ceremony of the <strong><em>USNS Harvey Milk <\/em><\/strong>took place in San Diego and was attended by the <em>Secretary of the Navy<\/em>, <strong>Carlos Del Toro<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cThere is no doubt that the future sailors aboard this ship will be inspired by Milk\u2019s life and legacy,\u201d said Del Toro.&nbsp; Somewhere, Milk is smiling at the thought of his namesake being boarded by thousands of young sailors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our community has made enormous strides since I came out some three decades ago \u2013 a point driven home when I learned that the US Navy named a ship after Harvey Milk!&nbsp; The gay rights advocate was assassinated in 1978 at a time when the idea of being openly gay in the military was unfathomable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81386,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81385\/revisions\/81386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}