{"id":52316,"date":"2024-04-29T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52316"},"modified":"2024-04-28T10:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T14:20:57","slug":"qotd-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/29\/qotd-the-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>What frightened me was not going to Vietnam. What frightened me was going in the Army. The haircut, the uniform, the discipline: If I&#8217;d been allowed to go to Vietnam in my old clothes &#8230; The minute the draft disappeared, the whole hippie-dippy thing just went up in smoke.<\/p>\n<p>P.J. O&#8217;Rourke, interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taemag.com\/issues\/articleid.16176\/article_detail.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Walter, &#8220;The 60&#8217;s Return&#8221;, <em>American Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, May\/June 1997.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What frightened me was not going to Vietnam. What frightened me was going in the Army. The haircut, the uniform, the discipline: If I&#8217;d been allowed to go to Vietnam in my old clothes &#8230; The minute the draft disappeared, the whole hippie-dippy thing just went up in smoke. P.J. O&#8217;Rourke, interviewed by Scott Walter, [&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":[7,5,41,13],"tags":[311,263,407,313,585],"class_list":["post-52316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1960s","tag-1970s","tag-babyboomers","tag-conscription","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dBO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52316","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=52316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88691,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52316\/revisions\/88691"}],"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=52316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}