{"id":1231,"date":"2011-10-04T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2011\/10\/04\/wherein-i-talk-more-politics-and-my-worth-as-a-citizen\/"},"modified":"2011-10-04T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:59:11","slug":"wherein-i-talk-more-politics-and-my-worth-as-a-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wherein-i-talk-more-politics-and-my-worth-as-a-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I talk more politics, and my worth as a citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written: 10\/04\/2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2011\/09\/26\/what-we-said\">Slog has a fantastic piece<\/a>, although, it&#8217;s mostly talking about activism, and different progressive groups.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to pull a small bit out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Maybe it&#8217;s because we were tired of paying the same taxes and not being able to pursue our happiness with equal fervor. Maybe it&#8217;s because for decades we had been told by Democrats, &#8220;Elect us and we&#8217;ll help you,&#8221; yet we had only seen discriminatory measures like &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, Don&#8217;t tell&#8221; and the Defense of Marriage Act enacted into law. Maybe it&#8217;s because once your intelligence has been insulted flagrantly enough and your humanity denigrated deeply enough, you&#8217;ve got nothing left to lose. Whatever it was, many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans had had enough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To me though, it&#8217;s the first sentence that means the most.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not being able to pursue my happiness: I&#8217;m a second class citizen.<\/p>\n<p>All my best,<\/p>\n<p>The King of Spades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written: 10\/04\/2011 Slog has a fantastic piece, although, it&#8217;s mostly talking about activism, and different progressive groups.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to pull a small bit out: Maybe it&#8217;s because we were tired of paying the same taxes and not being able to pursue our happiness with equal fervor. Maybe it&#8217;s because for decades we had been told by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-king-of-spades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}