{"id":1559,"date":"2010-08-04T14:14:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2010-08-04T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:15:22","slug":"overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/overturned\/","title":{"rendered":"Overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gm-rainbow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" align=\"left\" \/>Yeah!\u00c2\u00a0   It appears that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that California&#8217;s mean-spirited <em class=\"b\">Proposition 8 is unconstitutional<\/em>, and overturned it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s great news.  <\/p>\n<p>The ruling is only a step in the process (as it will surely be appealed) &#8211; but it&#8217;s a positive step.     It gives me hope for my gay and lesbian friends &#8211; as well as for the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah!\u00c2\u00a0 It appears that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that California&#8217;s mean-spirited Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, and overturned it. That&#8217;s great news. The ruling is only a step in the process (as it will surely be appealed) &#8211; but it&#8217;s a positive step. It gives me hope for my gay and lesbian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/overturned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overturned<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}