I keep getting things in the mail from the Army and now from the National Guard. Did somebody put me on a list as a joke? I’m about to turn 29. Don’t they want people who are bit younger and, um, straighter? And less commie pacifist? I mean, I don’t like the idea of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and it’s a bit late for the “telling” part. But heck, maybe they try to recruit lots of people in music grad school. I could join the composer corps. I thought they liked their queer composers to be safely dead. *cough*Copland*cough*<\/p>\n
True: if the military hadn’t fired all the bands under Clinton and didn’t discriminate, my high school tuba teacher would have prolly recommended that I sign up and prolly would have. I mean, if I’d been willing to spend my junior and sneior year practicing 4 hours \/ day . . . which I prolly would have. I keep getting things in the mail from the Army and now from the National Guard. Did somebody put me on a list as a joke? I’m about to turn 29. Don’t they want people who are bit younger and, um, straighter? And less commie pacifist? I mean, I don’t like the idea of Don’t … Continue reading Recruitment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTags: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell<\/a>, Military<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"