{"id":26380,"date":"2012-02-13T13:24:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/congratulations-washington-state.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:39:22","slug":"congratulations-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/congratulations-washington-state.html","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the 21st Century and the right side of history.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_19954926'>Washington gov signs gay marriage bill into law &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOLYMPIA, Wash.\u2014Gov. Chris Gregoire handed gay rights advocates a major victory, singing into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, making it the seventh in the nation to &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the 21st Century and the right side of history. #ddtb Embedded Link Washington gov signs gay marriage bill into law &#8211; The Denver Post OLYMPIA, Wash.\u2014Gov. Chris Gregoire handed gay rights advocates a major victory, singing into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, making it the seventh in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/congratulations-washington-state.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congratulations, Washington State&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25,718,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/well-done-maryland.html","url_meta":{"origin":26380,"position":0},"title":"Well done, Maryland","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-Feb-12 6:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations on passing a marriage equality bill through your legislature. #ddtbReshared post from +Zachary CookWow -- more fantastic news. Looks like Maryland is about to become another state with equality, two states in less than two weeks. This is the best quote from the story -- one that many Republicans\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26215,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/well-done-washington-state-that-is.html","url_meta":{"origin":26380,"position":1},"title":"Well done, Washington! (State, that is.)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 4:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations on passage of a marriage equality bill, and my condolences for the vitriol, epithets, and crazy political forces you will now draw. #ddtbReshared post from +David Badash Embedded Link Breaking: Washington Passes Marriage Equality Just moments ago, the Washington State House passed a same-sex marriage equality bill. 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