{"id":2041,"date":"2016-01-24T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2016\/01\/24\/just-keep-repeating-to-yourself-the-mods-are-not-peanut-butter-the-mods-are-not-peanut-butter\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:43:10","slug":"just-keep-repeating-to-yourself-the-mods-are-not-peanut-butter-the-mods-are-not-peanut-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/just-keep-repeating-to-yourself-the-mods-are-not-peanut-butter-the-mods-are-not-peanut-butter\/","title":{"rendered":"Just keep repeating to yourself &#8220;the mods are not peanut butter&#8230;the mods are not peanut butter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, let&#8217;s see what we have today. \u00a0First up, it didn&#8217;t make it to Broadway, but there was a stage version of Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Hunchback of Notre Dame,&#8221; which is my all-time favorite Disney movie. \u00a0Here is a preview of the cast recording:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1098\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1FEf94i-7Q8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>And here is a clip of &#8220;Out There&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1098\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1NZUWYCy5pk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s all kinds of conservatives decrying Donald Trump&#8217;s sustained leading in the polls. \u00a0But just remember, this is what the modern republican party has always stood for, he&#8217;s just shouting it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakesville.com\/2016\/01\/behold-your-roosting-chickens.html\">instead of whispering and implying it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the IOC will adopt trans*-friendly policies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsports.com\/2016\/1\/21\/10812404\/transgender-ioc-policy-new-olympics\">not requiring surgery<\/a>\u00a0for athletes to compete as the gender they are.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of sports, a spin off of Ben Cohen&#8217;s foundation was recently formed to help and accelerate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsports.com\/2016\/1\/20\/10796682\/sports-equality-foundation-lgbt\">US athletes coming out of the closet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I&#8217;ll miss the most next year will be Joe Biden no longer being VEEP. \u00a0Case in point, his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/01\/joe-biden-davos\/\">blistering take down of anti-LGBT policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know anything about Suicide Squad, but this is an awesome trailer. \u00a0The music, the editing, the colors, simply awesome:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1098\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CmRih_VtVAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectthyneighbor.org\/state-legislation-2016\">Protect Thy Neighbor<\/a>\u00a0is tracking anti-LGBT laws proposed across the country. \u00a0Even though we have marriage, we still lack very basic civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>One such push is for &#8220;bathroom bills.&#8221; \u00a0Here&#8217;s how one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/outward\/2016\/01\/20\/how_the_trans_bathroom_myth_makes_life_difficult_for_trans_women.html\">trans-woman describes the excruciating process of peeing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/ethics-values\/ever-considered-how-religious-freedoms-look-from-the-outside-ajrt\/\">another perspective on the &#8220;Religious Freedom&#8221; bills<\/a>\u00a0popping up all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>And a totally heartbreaking story from Australia: One man in a couple on their honeymoon dies, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2016\/01\/20\/australia-state-wont-recognize-marriage-of-gay-british-citizen-who-died-while-honeymooning\/\">Australia refuses to recognize their marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that ended up pretty depressing, go watch the videos again, that will make it better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, let&#8217;s see what we have today. \u00a0First up, it didn&#8217;t make it to Broadway, but there was a stage version of Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Hunchback of Notre Dame,&#8221; which is my all-time favorite Disney movie. \u00a0Here is a preview of the cast recording: And here is a clip of &#8220;Out There&#8221; So there&#8217;s all kinds of conservatives decrying [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","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=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}