{"id":3761,"date":"2013-02-07T19:47:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:47:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:47:36","slug":"equality-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3761","title":{"rendered":"Equality Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Dayton\u2019s call to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/politics-policy\/2013\/02\/dayton-delivers-surprises-throughout-state-state-speech\">legalize same-sex marriage<\/a> in his State of the State address didn\u2019t come as a surprise, but it should be an encouraging sign to fellow progressives. Perhaps this will prompt DFL legislators to pass a bill this session. It could still happen in 2014, but House members may be a little skittish because they will be facing reelection. It may be better to do it this year while the political winds are favorable.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my gay friends will be inviting me to their wedding receptions sooner than we thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Dayton\u2019s call to legalize same-sex marriage in his State of the State address didn\u2019t come as a surprise, but it should be an encouraging sign to fellow progressives. Perhaps this will prompt DFL legislators to pass a bill this session. It could still happen in 2014, but House members may be a little skittish <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3761' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-YF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","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=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}