{"id":3411,"date":"2009-10-30T13:08:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2009-10-30T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:08:54","slug":"another-step-towards-rejoining-the-civilized-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/10\/30\/another-step-towards-rejoining-the-civilized-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Step Towards Rejoining the Civilized World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2009\/10\/obama_lifts_ban_on_us_entry_for_those_with_hiv.php?ref=fpa\">finally ended the US travel ban for HIV-positive people<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 In signing it, he noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty-two years ago, in a decision rooted in fear rather than fact, the United States instituted a travel ban on entry into the country for people living with HIV\/AIDS.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, we talk about reducing the stigma of this disease &#8212; yet we&#8217;ve treated a visitor living with it as a threat.\u00c2\u00a0 We lead the world when it comes to helping stem the AIDS pandemic &#8212; yet we are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people from HIV from entering our own country.If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV\/AIDS, we need to act like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Small, but important, steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama finally ended the US travel ban for HIV-positive people.\u00c2\u00a0 In signing it, he noted: Twenty-two years ago, in a decision rooted in fear rather than fact, the United States instituted a travel ban on entry into the country for people living with HIV\/AIDS.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, we talk about reducing the stigma of this disease &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}