{"id":186385,"date":"2014-02-04T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/04\/hizonner-does-good\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T00:11:00","slug":"hizonner-does-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/04\/hizonner-does-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Hizonner Does Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor Bill De Blasio jas just announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/de-blasio-st-patricks-day-parade\">will not march in the St. Patrick&#8217;s day parade because of the organizers anti-gay policies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Tuesday said that he will not march in the city&#8217;s annual St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade because organizers of the event will not allow participants to carry gay pride signs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;No, I am not planning on marching in the parade,&#8221; de Blasio said at a press conference. &#8220;I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city, but I simply disagree with the organizers of that parade.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fabulous!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that the blow-back changes the calculus used the bigots who run the parade to make their decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor Bill De Blasio jas just announced that will not march in the St. Patrick&#8217;s day parade because of the organizers anti-gay policies: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Tuesday said that he will not march in the city&#8217;s annual St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade because organizers of the event will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1030,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-lgbtq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186385"}],"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=186385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}