{"id":504,"date":"2012-05-10T07:24:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2013-10-21T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T18:54:15","slug":"president-obama-supports-marriage-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/news\/president-obama-supports-marriage-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama supports marriage equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/10\/us\/politics\/obama-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-legal.html?_r=1\">This is a proud moment<\/a> for our country. As Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No American president has ever supported a major expansion of civil rights that has not ultimately been adopted by the American people, and I have no doubt that this will be no exception.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And as Dr. Martin Luther King said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u017d&#8221;A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a proud moment for our country. As Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York said: &#8220;No American president has ever supported a major expansion of civil rights that&#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/news\/president-obama-supports-marriage-equality\/\">read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernketubah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}