{"id":39973,"date":"2004-03-30T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/03\/30\/special-skills-draft-on-the-drawing-board\/"},"modified":"2004-03-30T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T07:02:00","slug":"special-skills-draft-on-the-drawing-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040330-00\/?p=39973","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Special skills&quot; draft on the drawing board"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  The [U.S.] government is taking the first steps toward a  targeted military draft of Americans with  <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/03\/13\/MNG905K1BC1.DTL\">  special skills in computers and foreign languages<\/a>.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Apparently,  there is already a special system to draft &#8220;health care  personnel&#8221;, whatever that means.\n  Can you imagine the havoc that could be wrought by  disgruntled programmers forced to write code for the government?\n  So all I have to do now is volunteer at the local hospital  and I&#8217;ll have hit the conscription jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>  [Raymond is currently on vacation; this message was pre-recorded.]  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The [U.S.] government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages. Apparently, there is already a special system to draft &#8220;health care personnel&#8221;, whatever that means. Can you imagine the havoc that could be wrought by disgruntled programmers forced to write code for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-39973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The [U.S.] government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages. Apparently, there is already a special system to draft &#8220;health care personnel&#8221;, whatever that means. Can you imagine the havoc that could be wrought by disgruntled programmers forced to write code for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}