{"id":584,"date":"2004-03-19T10:54:46","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T18:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/03\/getting_drafty\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T13:35:00","slug":"getting_drafty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/03\/getting_drafty.html","title":{"rendered":"GETTING DRAFTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Defense Department using emergency powers to extend active duty for a\u00a0short-handed army in Iraq, it&#8217;s worth noting that the Pentagon may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article5146.htm\"><b><em><span style=\"color: #003399;\">&#8220;Oiling up the draft machine.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/b><\/a> Legislation pending in\u00a0the U.S. House and Senate &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/docs\/link.asp?URL=http%3A%2F%2Ffrwebgate%2Eaccess%2Egpo\n%2Egov%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fgetdoc%2Ecgi%3Fdbname%3D108%5Fcong%5Fbills%26docid%3\nDf%3Ah163ih%2Etxt%2Epdf\"><b><em><span style=\"color: #003399;\">H.R.\u00a0163<\/span><\/em><\/b><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/docs\/link.asp?URL=http%3A%2F%2Ffrwebgate%2Eaccess%2Egpo\n%2Egov%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fgetdoc%2Ecgi%3Fdbname%3D108%5Fcong%5Fbills%26docid%3\nDf%3As89is%2Etxt%2Epdf\"><b><em><span style=\"color: #003399;\">S.R.\u00a089<\/span><\/em><\/b><\/a>,\u00a0identical bills\u00a0introduced last year by Democrats and\u00a0now quietly backed by the Bush administration &#8212; would re-institute a military draft. Here&#8217;s a short\u00a0summary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/Legislation\/National\/2003\/S89\/default.asp\"><b><em><span style=\"color: #003399;\">pertinent information<\/span><\/em><\/b><\/a>. Meantime, $28 million has\u00a0been added to the 2004 budget of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sss.gov\/perfplan_fy2004.html\"><b><em><span style=\"color: #003399;\">Selective\u00a0Service System<\/span><\/em><\/b><\/a> to prepare for a draft that could start as early as June\u00a015, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Defense Department using emergency powers to extend active duty for a\u00a0short-handed army in Iraq, it&#8217;s worth noting that the Pentagon may be &#8220;Oiling up the draft machine.&#8221; Legislation pending in\u00a0the U.S. House and Senate &#8212; H.R.\u00a0163 and S.R.\u00a089,\u00a0identical bills\u00a0introduced last year by Democrats and\u00a0now quietly backed by the Bush administration &#8212; would re-institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":"","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51384,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/51384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}