{"id":29177,"date":"2015-02-12T02:42:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/chelsea-manning-to-join-the-guardian-as-an-opinion-writer.php"},"modified":"2015-02-12T02:42:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:42:48","slug":"chelsea-manning-to-join-the-guardian-as-an-opinion-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/chelsea-manning\/chelsea-manning-to-join-the-guardian-as-an-opinion-writer.php","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Manning to join The Guardian as an opinion writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief at The Guardian U.S.,    announced today that Chelsea Manning will join the publication    as a contributing opinion writer.  <\/p>\n<p>    Manning will write from Fort Leavenworth prison in northeast    Kansas, where she is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking    national security documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. She will not    be paid for the work, Politico     reported.  <\/p>\n<p>    Manning, who served in the military under her birth name    Bradley, was deployed in Iraq for a year and a half before her    arrest in May 2010. After her sentencing in 2013, Manning    announced that she was a transgender woman, and last May U.S.    Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel approved a plan to assist her    gender transition while in prison. In September, the American    Civil Liberties Union     filed a lawsuit for Manning against Hagel and other    government officials, saying that she had not yet received the    treatment she was promised.  <\/p>\n<p>    Manning wrote an essay for The Guardian in December outlining    some of the challenges that transgender people face in the U.S.    legal system. She     wrote:  <\/p>\n<p>      Despite ample evidence that trans people have existed in      most cultures throughout history, and the medical consensus      that trans people can live healthy, productive lives, many      governments continue to impose barriers on trans people that      can make it almost impossible to survive.    <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/chelsea-manning-join-guardian-opinion-writer\" title=\"Chelsea Manning to join The Guardian as an opinion writer\">Chelsea Manning to join The Guardian as an opinion writer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief at The Guardian U.S., announced today that Chelsea Manning will join the publication as a contributing opinion writer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chelsea-manning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}