{"id":41112,"date":"2017-12-14T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41112"},"modified":"2017-12-04T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:20:10","slug":"the-us-navy-and-their-hilariously-inept-search-for-dorothy-and-her-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/the-us-navy-and-their-hilariously-inept-search-for-dorothy-and-her-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Navy and Their Hilariously Inept Search for Dorothy and Her Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOn9grCVO7c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Today I Found Out<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 2 Dec 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this video:<\/p>\n<p>While the Ancient Greeks had their celebrated Sacred Band of Thebes, a legendarily successful fighting force made up of all male lovers, in more modern times the various branches of the United States military have not been so accepting of such individuals, which brings us to the topic of today- that time in the 1980s when the Naval Intelligence Service invested significant resources into trying to locate a mysterious woman identified only as \u201cDorothy\u201d who seemed to have links to countless gay seamen. The plan was to find her and then \u201cconvince\u201d her to finger these individuals so the military could give them the boot.<\/p>\n<p>Want the text version?: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/u-s-navy-hilarious-multi-million-dollar-fruitless-search-wizard-ozs-dorothy-friends\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/u-s-navy-hilarious-multi-million-dollar-fruitless-search-wizard-ozs-dorothy-friends\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I Found Out Published on 2 Dec 2017 In this video: While the Ancient Greeks had their celebrated Sacred Band of Thebes, a legendarily successful fighting force made up of all male lovers, in more modern times the various branches of the United States military have not been so accepting of such individuals, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[52,196,30,334],"class_list":["post-41112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-lgbt","tag-navy","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aH6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41113,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112\/revisions\/41113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}