{"id":1502,"date":"2007-06-14T21:03:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T21:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/06\/14\/marriage-news-from-massachuset\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T21:03:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T21:03:27","slug":"marriage-news-from-massachuset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/06\/14\/marriage-news-from-massachuset\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage News from Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As several of you know very well, Kate and I were married five years ago in Massachusetts, near where her family lives. Which, of course, means that our marriage was totally cheapened and rendered meaningless by today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/city_region\/breaking_news\/2007\/06\/legislators_vot_1.html\">vote against an anti-gay-marriage amendment to the state constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or&#8211; wait, let me check&#8211; no, no it wasn&#8217;t. Nope, pretty much still happily married, and happy to be married. And probably happier than ever to have been married in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Some horse trading was apparently required to get the votes lined up, but the Legislature eventually managed to do the right thing. Good show, guys.<\/p>\n<p>Now, get with the program, New York.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/after-words.org\/grim\/weblog\/2007\/06\/14\/and_then_a_miracle_occurred.shtml\">grim amusements<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As several of you know very well, Kate and I were married five years ago in Massachusetts, near where her family lives. Which, of course, means that our marriage was totally cheapened and rendered meaningless by today&#8217;s vote against an anti-gay-marriage amendment to the state constitution. Or&#8211; wait, let me check&#8211; no, no it wasn&#8217;t.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/06\/14\/marriage-news-from-massachuset\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marriage News from Massachusetts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}