{"id":1647,"date":"2015-06-28T20:54:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T03:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2015-06-29T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T15:15:22","slug":"marriage-equality-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1647","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Equality in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite a week here in the States with the Supreme Court narrowly deciding in favor of marriage equality.  I&#8217;ve posted about the issue a few times here the last few years, but like many I was surprised to see it come to pass this quickly.  Back around 2010 I guessed it would be at least ten years or more till it would happen, but late last year, as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/five-signs-weve-reached-the-marriage-equality-tipping-point-20141020\">Rolling Stone<\/a> article reports, there seemed to be a tipping point and things started to move fast.  <\/p>\n<p>Twitter of course went crazy, with some very funny and touching posts.  My favorite is from the Onion below, always hilarious.  There&#8217;ll be some inevitable backlash (there&#8217;s already been lots of grumbling in the great state of Texas) but I&#8217;m hoping things will eventually settle down and people will realize the sky still has not fallen.  I also loved this photo down below of what appears to be Miley Cyrus hand-gagging herself :-)  I really wanted to see that one but the link didn&#8217;t seem to work (If anyone has a good link, please post below in the comments).  In any case it was a thrill to wake up on Friday, go online, and hear some good news.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/scalia-thomas-roberts-alito-suddenly-realize-they--32972'><img src='http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/marriage2.jpg' hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/marriage1.jpg' hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/miley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/marriage3a.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite a week here in the States with the Supreme Court narrowly deciding in favor of marriage equality. I&#8217;ve posted about the issue a few times here the last few years, but like many I was surprised to see it come to pass this quickly. Back around 2010 I guessed it would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marriage Equality in the US<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sandra-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}