{"id":86,"date":"2006-10-22T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T15:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-10-22T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T15:59:55","slug":"86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/86\/","title":{"rendered":"A Damning Indictment on the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/studdsandhara.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/studdsandhara.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Hara (left) and Gerry Studds, who served in the U.S. Congress 1973-1997.<\/figcaption><\/figure>What a damning indictment on the United States. What further proof is needed that bigotry and prejudice is alive and well in the so-called land of the free? <\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds gay husband, Dean Hara, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061018\/NEWS02\/110180030\">denied<\/a> his deceased partner&#8217;s benefits because of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a damning indictment on the United States. What further proof is needed that bigotry and prejudice is alive and well in the so-called land of the free? Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds gay husband, Dean Hara, is denied his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/86\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moaning","category-thinking","tag-stupid-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}