{"id":2705,"date":"2009-04-03T10:49:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2009-04-03T10:49:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T14:49:51","slug":"iowa-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/04\/03\/iowa-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa?!  Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20090403\/NEWS\/90403010\">Wow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Iowa Supreme Court this morning unanimously upheld gays\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 right to marry.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the justices said in a summary of their decision.<\/p>\n<p>The court rules that gay marriage would be legal in three weeks, starting April 24. The court affirmed a Polk County District Court decision that would allow six gay couples to marry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe equality really *is* an American value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow: The Iowa Supreme Court this morning unanimously upheld gays\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 right to marry. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the justices said in a summary of their decision. The court rules that gay marriage would be legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,3],"tags":[189,506,188,190],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-personal","category-society","tag-equal-protection","tag-equality","tag-iowa","tag-marriage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}