{"id":308579,"date":"2017-05-17T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/manning-vows-not-to-relive-past-in-first-statement-since-release\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:39:37","slug":"manning-vows-not-to-relive-past-in-first-statement-since-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/manning-vows-not-to-relive-past-in-first-statement-since-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Manning vows not to \u2018relive past\u2019 in first statement since release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2017.05\/thumbnail\/591c5a79c4618881518b463c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 17 May, 2017 14:35 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Chelsea Manning has issued her first statement since being released from prison Wednesday. The 35-year-old whistleblower served seven years of a 35-year term before former US President Barack Obama commuted her sentence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p><em>\u201cI appreciate the wonderful support that I have received from so many people across the world over these past years,\u201d<\/em> Manning said to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/exclusive-chelsea-manning-tells-abc-news-past-affect\/story?id=47452624\">ABC<\/a> in an exclusive statement, adding that she would remind herself not to <em>\u201crelive the past.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong\/><em>\u201cThe past will always affect me and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong\/>Manning left Fort Leavenworth military prison at 2am on Wednesday morning. Following her release she tweeted a link to a newly created Instagram account xychelsea87.<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on both the Twitter and Instagram account showed a pair of Converse shoes with the accompanying text <em>\u201cFirst steps of freedom!!\u201d<\/em> and the hashtag #ChelseaIsFree.<\/p>\n<p><strong\/>Prior to her release Manning released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luminairity.com\/chelsea-release-statement\/\">statement<\/a> through the American Civil Liberties Union, in which she said she could <em>\u201csee a future for myself as Chelsea.\u201d<\/em> When convicted in 2013 Manning went by the first name Bradley, before later coming out as transgender and identifying as Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I watched the world change from inside prison walls and through the letters that I have received from veterans, trans young people, parents, politicians, and artists,&#8221;<\/em> Manning said. <em>&#8220;My spirits were lifted in dark times, reading of their support, sharing in their triumphs, and helping them through challenges of their own.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/388678-chelsea-manning-released-prison\/\">READ MORE: Whistleblower Chelsea Manning freed from US military prison after 7 years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/388700-chelsea-manning-release-statement\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 17 May, 2017 14:35 Chelsea Manning has issued her first statement since being released from prison Wednesday. The 35-year-old whistleblower served seven years of a 35-year term before former US President Barack Obama commuted her sentence. \u201cI appreciate the wonderful support that I have received from so many people across the world over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}