{"id":8480,"date":"2010-12-17T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8480"},"modified":"2010-12-13T03:15:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T08:15:45","slug":"military-officers-among-top-of-honesty-and-ethics-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/military-officers-among-top-of-honesty-and-ethics-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Officers Among Top of &#8220;Honesty and Ethics Survey&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup&#8217;s annual survey of the American perceptions of the honesty and ethical standards of professions shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/145043\/Nurses-Top-Honesty-Ethics-List-11-Year.aspx\">&#8220;military officers&#8221; at #2<\/a>, with 73% &#8220;very high\/high,&#8221; behind only nurses.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0contrast, police were at 57% high\/very high, lawyers at 17%, and Congress at 9%, just above car salesmen.<\/p>\n<p>It would appear, despite scandals and press to the contrary, the American public continues to view military leadership as morally upright and honorable.\u00a0 Obviously, it should &#8212; if society every views its military otherwise, it should take action to correct that ethical failure.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are the physical guardians of the nation cannot be morally destitute, else they will no longer be trustworthy guardians of <em>anything<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup&#8217;s annual survey of the American perceptions of the honesty and ethical standards of professions shows &#8220;military officers&#8221; at #2, with 73% &#8220;very high\/high,&#8221; behind only nurses. For\u00a0contrast, police were at 57% high\/very high, lawyers at 17%, and Congress at 9%, just above car salesmen. It would appear, despite scandals and press to the contrary, the American public continues to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[86,1227,1228,2,198],"class_list":["post-8480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-ethics","tag-gallup","tag-honesty-and-ethical-standards","tag-military","tag-morality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480","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=8480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}