{"id":3880,"date":"2010-04-16T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2010-04-16T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:41:10","slug":"ready-to-sue-cuccinelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/04\/16\/ready-to-sue-cuccinelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Sue, Cuccinelli?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama takes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/15\/AR2010041505502.html?hpid=topnews\">big step forward<\/a> on the decency front:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whorunsgov.com\/Profiles\/Barack_Obama\">President Obama<\/a> mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients&#8217; choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is something he should have done long ago, I think.  In any event, I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s done now.  The next step, I presume, is Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli suing to stop this from taking force in Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama takes a big step forward on the decency front: President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients&#8217; choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","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=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}