{"id":15942,"date":"2012-02-09T00:58:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2012-02-09T01:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T04:03:51","slug":"military-brings-end-to-birth-control-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/military-brings-end-to-birth-control-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Brings End to Birth Control Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Basic Training-issued BCGs, once the brown-rimmed, awkward-looking but sturdily-built\u00a0hallmark of basic trainees,\u00a0are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/01\/military-eyeglasses-recruits-012012w\/\">officially dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/bcg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Military recruits who wear glasses no longer will have to endure the embarrassment of sporting BCGs \u2014 those beloved standard-issue specs, technically called S9s, which are universally known as \u201cBirth Control Glasses\u201d because they\u2019re supposedly so unattractive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another &#8220;tradition&#8221; falls to progress&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Basic Training-issued BCGs, once the brown-rimmed, awkward-looking but sturdily-built\u00a0hallmark of basic trainees,\u00a0are officially dead. Military recruits who wear glasses no longer will have to endure the embarrassment of sporting BCGs \u2014 those beloved standard-issue specs, technically called S9s, which are universally known as \u201cBirth Control Glasses\u201d because they\u2019re supposedly so unattractive. Yet another &#8220;tradition&#8221; falls to progress&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2852,2853,2,40],"class_list":["post-15942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-bcg","tag-glasses","tag-military","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}