{"id":477,"date":"2004-05-17T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/marriage-in-massachusetts\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T14:59:00","slug":"marriage-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/17\/marriage-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of the many couples <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/G\/GAY_MARRIAGE?SITE=KING&#038;SECTION=HOME\">getting married<\/a> in Massachusetts today (Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;u=\/040517\/480\/cak10305171343&#038;e=7&#038;nc\">photos<\/a>).  Julie and Hillary Goodridge, lead plaintiffs in the case to allow same-sex couples to marry, getting their marriage license: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/massmarr2.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>John Mirthes and Rick Reynolds chat with volunteer Sian Robertson as they wait to file their intent to marry:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/massmarr1.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/comment\/comment-gallagher071403.asp\">told<\/a> that scenes like this are going to be the end of civilization as we know it.  But with all the other images we&#8217;ve been seeing in the news lately, these made me feel good.<\/p>\n<p>(Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004\/03\/career-choices-explained.html\">Career choices explained<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of the many couples getting married in Massachusetts today (Associated Press photos). Julie and Hillary Goodridge, lead plaintiffs in the case to allow same-sex couples to marry, getting their marriage license: John Mirthes and Rick Reynolds chat with volunteer Sian Robertson as they wait to file their intent to marry: I&#8217;m told that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}