{"id":189865,"date":"2010-02-05T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/05\/sanity-in-maryland-lege\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T22:13:00","slug":"sanity-in-maryland-lege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/05\/sanity-in-maryland-lege\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanity in Maryland Lege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Maryland Delegate Emmett Burns put forward a bill to forbid the state from recognizing same-sex marriage, but it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/politics\/bal-md.briefs041feb04,0,4117506.story\">defeated on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would note that Maryland <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">already<\/span> recognizes marriages that are illegal in the state but conducted elsewhere, most notably common-law marriages.  This tradition may have helped opponents of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Maryland Delegate Emmett Burns put forward a bill to forbid the state from recognizing same-sex marriage, but it was defeated on Wednesday. I would note that Maryland already recognizes marriages that are illegal in the state but conducted elsewhere, most notably common-law marriages. This tradition may have helped opponents of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1020,1030,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-legislation","category-lgbtq","category-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189865"}],"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=189865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}