{"id":2182,"date":"2011-06-25T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T09:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2011-06-25T09:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T09:49:19","slug":"the_long_trajectory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/25\/the_long_trajectory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Trajectory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbennion.com\/images\/empire-state-building_rainbow-lights.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Woke up this morning to <i><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/06\/new-york-state-senate-passes-marriage-equality-bill.php\">the news<\/a><\/i> that gay marriage is now legal in New York state. Good for New York. Social progress comes slowly. Sometimes it seems it&#8217;s never going to arrive. But if you wait long enough, work hard enough, hold on to your principles no matter what, it eventually <i>does <\/i>come around. The long trajectory of this country has forever been toward greater equality under the law for <i>all <\/i>its citizens, no matter who they are or what they stand for. New York just affirmed that fundamental idea in a major way.<\/p>\n<p>Now, anyone care to wager over whether my home state of Utah will be the last in the union to the affirm that idea? No, I suppose not&#8230; the odds are too bad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning to the news that gay marriage is now legal in New York state. Good for New York. Social progress comes slowly. Sometimes it seems it&#8217;s never going to arrive. But if you wait long enough, work hard enough, hold on to your principles no matter what, it eventually does come around. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}