{"id":2099,"date":"2008-10-23T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2008-10-23T20:22:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T20:22:18","slug":"no_on_8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2099","title":{"rendered":"No On 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California ballot initiative&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Proposition_8_%282008%29\">Proposition 8<\/a>&#8211;seeks to ban same-sex marriages through an amendment to the state constitution. If this initiative passes, it would effectively dissolve thousands of couples&#8217; marriages. A few weeks ago, polls showed Prop 8 heading for an easy defeat, but then conservative groups cranked up the fear-based rhetoric and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2008\/10\/prop-8-toss-up.html\">polls have tightened<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Prop 8 is nothing more than a shameless effort to codify discrimination. The intent is spelled out right in the title: &#8220;Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry&#8221;. It deserves defeat, but it&#8217;s going to take money to make that happen. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noonprop8.com\/\">contribute here<\/a> to show your support for the countless couples, present and future, who seek nothing more than equal status under the law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California ballot initiative&#8211;Proposition 8&#8211;seeks to ban same-sex marriages through an amendment to the state constitution. If this initiative passes, it would effectively dissolve thousands of couples&#8217; marriages. A few weeks ago, polls showed Prop 8 heading for an easy defeat, but then conservative groups cranked up the fear-based rhetoric and the polls have tightened. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2099' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-no_on_8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}