{"id":1979,"date":"2009-04-09T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T18:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2009-04-09T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T18:37:42","slug":"flyover-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2009\/04\/09\/flyover-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyover country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leah hipped me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/09\/opinion\/09thrasher.html?_r=1\">this<\/a> just now, and I thought it worth sharing.  It&#8217;s a wonderful little bit of writing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That I almost cried last week upon reading that the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the state law banning same-sex marriage will therefore come as no surprise. I\u2019m still struck by one thought: over the years, I\u2019ve met so many gay \u00e9migr\u00e9s who felt it was unsafe to be gay in so-called flyover country and fled for the East and West coasts. But as a gay man, I can\u2019t marry in \u201cliberal\u201d New York, where I\u2019m a resident, or in \u201cliberal\u201d California, where I was born, and very soon I will have that right in \u201cconservative\u201d Iowa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leah hipped me to this just now, and I thought it worth sharing. It&#8217;s a wonderful little bit of writing. That I almost cried last week upon reading that the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the state law banning same-sex marriage will therefore come as no surprise. I\u2019m still struck by one thought: over the years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-vV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}