{"id":19214,"date":"2019-02-15T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19214"},"modified":"2019-02-15T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:03:08","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-dismissal-of-hiv-positive-airmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/federal-judge-blocks-dismissal-of-hiv-positive-airmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Blocks Dismissal of HIV-Positive Airmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><header class=\"CheatHeader CheatHeader--with-credits\">\n<section class=\"Hero\">\n<div class=\"LazyLoad is-visible\">\n<figure class=\"PictureWrapper PictureWrapper--in-hero\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1440,w_2560,x_0,y_0\/dpr_1.5\/c_limit,w_608\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1550258897\/RTS1C3I4_1_s5issq\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"Caption Caption--hero\">\n<div class=\"Caption__credit\">\n<h4 class=\"Caption__credit-text\">Reuters<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"CheatBody\">\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily blocked the Department of Defense from discharging two HIV-positive members of the Air Force, siding with LGBT advocacy groups Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN. As The Daily Beast <a class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-danger-of-deploy-or-get-out-facing-hiv-positive-troops\">noted<\/a> last September, longstanding military policy bans HIV-positive people from enlisting in the armed forces and prevents most current service members who receive an HIV diagnosis after enlistment from deploying overseas.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/federal-judge-blocks-dismissal-of-hiv-positive-airmen\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Reuters A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily blocked the Department of Defense from discharging two HIV-positive members of the Air Force,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}