{"id":189967,"date":"2010-01-21T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/21\/i-cant-believe-that-i-am-saying-this\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:21:00","slug":"i-cant-believe-that-i-am-saying-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/21\/i-cant-believe-that-i-am-saying-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Believe That I am Saying This"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 380px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img715.imageshack.us\/img715\/6760\/image6120957x6886547.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img715.imageshack.us\/img715\/6760\/image6120957x6886547.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"370\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This is Cindy McCain In a Pro-Gay Marriage Ad<\/span><\/div>\n<p>But, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/20\/politics\/politicalhotsheet\/entry6121366.shtml\">offer my support and congratulations to Cindy McCain<\/a>, yes, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">that<\/span> Cindy McCain, John McCain&#8217;s wife:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Sen. John McCain&#8217;s wife Cindy McCain is the newest face of a pro-gay marriage campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Posing with tape over her mouth and a &#8220;NOH8&#8221; logo on her face, Cindy McCain was photographed for the NOH8 Campaign, which protests Proposition 8, the California proposition passed in 2008 banning same-sex marriage. The proposition is currently being challenged in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>McCain approached the campaign herself about her participation, the NOH8 Web site says. She has spoken out on behalf of gay rights before, though this is perhaps her most prominent show of support for the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that she realizes that John McCain will never be President, she&#8217;s doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>Better late than never.<\/p>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A big of meta:  I am not using my &#8220;John Sidney McCain III&#8221; tag because Cindy is more than just an extension of her husband.<\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Cindy McCain In a Pro-Gay Marriage Ad But, I offer my support and congratulations to Cindy McCain, yes, that Cindy McCain, John McCain&#8217;s wife: Sen. John McCain&#8217;s wife Cindy McCain is the newest face of a pro-gay marriage campaign. Posing with tape over her mouth and a &#8220;NOH8&#8221; logo on her face, Cindy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972,1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189967"}],"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=189967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}