{"id":186415,"date":"2014-01-27T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/27\/conservative-butthurt-2\/"},"modified":"2014-01-27T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:49:00","slug":"conservative-butthurt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/27\/conservative-butthurt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Butthurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I have no interest in awards, but the Grammy&#8217;s have their moments.<\/p>\n<p>The last time was in 1984, when Annie Lennox stunned and offended \u00bd of the  National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States (and amused the other \u00bd).<\/p>\n<p>This year, however, it is a bit more significant.  Queen Latifa officiated at the wedding of 34 couples, some of them same sex, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2014\/01\/conservatives-lash-out-at-sick-despicable-disgusting-grammys\/\">right wingers are having a major butt hurt about this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Anti-gay commentators were none too pleased with last night\u2019s performance of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis\u2019 \u201cSame Love\u201d at the Grammy Awards, which included a ceremony where thirty-four couples \u2014 including same-sex couples \u2014 were married. Unsurprisingly, many claimed that the show was evil and mean to anti-gay activists.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My heart bleeds borscht for these bigots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I have no interest in awards, but the Grammy&#8217;s have their moments. The last time was in 1984, when Annie Lennox stunned and offended \u00bd of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States (and amused the other \u00bd). This year, however, it is a bit more significant. Queen Latifa &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,971,1030,1064,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-media","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186415"}],"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=186415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}