{"id":222,"date":"2013-01-28T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conscientiousobjectors.wordpress.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:31:16","slug":"why-i-refused-to-return-to-fight-in-afghanistans-brutal-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/2013\/01\/28\/why-i-refused-to-return-to-fight-in-afghanistans-brutal-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"John Glenton: Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan&#8217;s brutal occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/apr\/25\/why-i-refused-to-fight-afghanistan-occupation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan&#8217;s brutal occupation | Joe Glenton | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; conscientious objection is a legal and contractual right. In fact, it is more than that \u2013 it is a legal and moral obligation. This is why we must not accept the debate about serving in Afghanistan to be to narrowed down to an exchange about a soldier&#8217;s heroism or cowardice. Instead, I would encourage servicemen to explore their right to refuse, be aware of it and to act upon their conscience. You will find you are not obliged to go; contracts, remember, bind multiple parties, not just one.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan&#8217;s brutal occupation | Joe Glenton | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-all-posts","category-conscientious-objection","category-constitutional","category-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caglark.com\/conscientiousobjectors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}