{"id":184143,"date":"2012-07-23T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/23\/todays-civil-rights-heroes\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T00:51:00","slug":"todays-civil-rights-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/23\/todays-civil-rights-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Civil Rights Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object height=\"219\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tLdYI8zk4QQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tLdYI8zk4QQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"390\" height=\"219\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><i>No, this is not intentional, just very apropos!<\/i><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/the-jim-henson-company\/july-20-2012\/10150928864755563\">The Muppets<\/a>.  Seriously:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them on any future endeavors.  Lisa Henson, our CEO is personally a strong supporter of gay marriage and has directed us to donate the payment we received from Chick-Fil-A to GLAAD.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/\">http:\/\/www.glaad.org\/<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, it&#8217;s a never a good idea to f%$# with the Muppets.&nbsp; When you f%$# with the (what the hell is Gonzo anyway?) you get the horns.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2012\/07\/23\/563571\/muppets-abandon-chick-fil-a-because-of-its-anti-gay-policies\/\">Think Progress.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this is not intentional, just very apropos! The Muppets. Seriously: The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them on any future endeavors. Lisa Henson, our CEO is personally a strong supporter of gay &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,971,1065,1012,1030,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-civil-rights","category-entertainment","category-food","category-lgbtq","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}