{"id":1535,"date":"2004-05-17T17:52:55","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/05\/17\/\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T17:52:55","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T21:52:55","slug":"1535","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/1535\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations Massachusetts!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/rainbow-flag.jpg\" alt=\"Yummy Wakame is gay friendly\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>First Gay Couples Wed in Massachusetts Today!<\/strong><br \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3716615.stm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong><\/a> has rejected a last ditch effort to stop same sex marriage from becoming legal in the state of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/wedding-rings.jpg\" alt=\"wedding rings\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>Gay couples around Massachusetts began exchanging vows today, marking the first time a state has granted gays and lesbians the right to marry and making the United States one of a handful of countries around the world where homosexuals can legally wed.<\/p>\n<p>Later this year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/world\/040517\/w051748.html\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Supreme Court of Canada<\/strong><\/a> will look at the constitutionality of gay marriage. Prime Minister Paul Martin has promised to introduce a bill to legalize it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3516551.stm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>The Gay Marriage Map<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; looking at those US states where the issue of gay marriage has cropped up over the years.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailynews\/138\/region\/Questions_and_answers_about_ga:.shtml\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Questions and answers about gay marriage in Massachusetts<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations Massachusetts! First Gay Couples Wed in Massachusetts Today!The Supreme Court has rejected a last ditch effort to stop same sex marriage from becoming legal in the state of Massachusetts. Gay couples around Massachusetts began exchanging vows today, marking the first time a state has granted gays and lesbians the right to marry and making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}