{"id":1002,"date":"2003-07-09T15:14:01","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T23:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2005-08-27T20:19:54","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T04:19:54","slug":"abolish-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"abolish marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A1910-2003Jul2.html\">Michael Kinsley<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> We can add gay marriage to the short list of controversies &ndash; abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty &ndash; that are so frozen and ritualistic that debates about them are more like kabuki performances than intellectual exercises. Or we can think outside the box. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> What a charming way to put it.  (I&#8217;d add nuclear power to the list.)  The solution offered is not original with Kinsley, but I am pleased to see it get more publicity.  (Link from <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2003_06_29_volokh_archive.html#105723864517106785\">Sasha Volokh<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kinsley: We can add gay marriage to the short list of controversies &ndash; abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty &ndash; that are so frozen and ritualistic that debates about them are more like kabuki performances than intellectual exercises. Or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}