{"id":40257,"date":"2013-11-29T06:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40257"},"modified":"2013-12-01T18:49:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:49:51","slug":"equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40257","title":{"rendered":"Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I&#8217;ve been saying &#8211; half-jokingly &#8211; that gays wouldn&#8217;t achieve real equality until we saw a married gay couple on\u00a0<em>Cops,\u00a0<\/em>with a drunk guy in a husband-beater T-shirt being bundled into a cruiser outside a battered trailer in a ratty southern trailer park while his husband nursed a black eye and cried and yelled &#8220;I love you, Manfred! \u00a0I&#8217;ll be down to bail you out!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But for the absence of a camera crew, a presumed dearth of ironic redneck-to-gay cross-cultural switcheroos and of course a tragic end result, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/nation\/233659301.html\">we almost got there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lest I flirt further with insensitivity, I do in fact send my condolences to all involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I&#8217;ve been saying &#8211; half-jokingly &#8211; that gays wouldn&#8217;t achieve real equality until we saw a married gay couple on\u00a0Cops,\u00a0with a drunk guy in a husband-beater T-shirt being bundled into a cruiser outside a battered trailer in a ratty southern trailer park while his husband nursed a black eye and cried and yelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40298,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions\/40298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}