{"id":36351,"date":"2013-06-26T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36351"},"modified":"2013-06-26T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:54:17","slug":"ap-pentagon-to-extend-benefits-to-gay-service-spouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/06\/26\/ap-pentagon-to-extend-benefits-to-gay-service-spouses\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: Pentagon to extend benefits to gay service spouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the Pentagon will begin the process to extend health care, housing and other federal benefits to the same-sex spouses of military members as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s Supreme Court decision opens the door for married gay couples to get federal benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Defense officials estimate there are 18,000 same-sex couples in the active duty, National Guard and Reserves. It&#8217;s unclear how many of those are married. The court ruling also could allow same-sex spouses to be buried at Arlington Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has said that by Oct. 1, it would extend a variety of benefits to same-sex partners, including access to on-base commissaries and some health and welfare programs.<\/p>\n<p>The repeal of the ban on openly gay military service took effect in September 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the Pentagon will begin the process to extend health care, housing and other federal benefits to the same-sex spouses of military members as soon as possible. Wednesday&#8217;s Supreme Court decision opens the door for married gay couples to get federal benefits. Defense officials estimate there are 18,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36352,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36351\/revisions\/36352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}