{"id":618,"date":"2004-05-17T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/05\/17\/spring-lawn-parties\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T18:58:46","slug":"spring-lawn-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/05\/17\/spring-lawn-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring lawn parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a443'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>250 same-sex marriage license were handed out b\/t midnight and 1am this morning at Cambridge <b>City Hall<\/b>, after an afternoon-long party in front of the city hall.  Everyone looks beautiful when they beam!  And there were a lot of beaming faces there.  I walked back home just as a line of policemen were walking back to the Central Sq station; someone was taking a photo of the passing line, and her friend started singing the &#8220;one of these things is not like the others&#8230;&#8221; theme song.  <\/p>\n<p>All I have to say is, if I were getting on in years, there could hardly be a better <b>old age home<\/b> than the one across the street from that city hall.  Those gentlemen and women have front row seats to everything, and they seem awfully happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>250 same-sex marriage license were handed out b\/t midnight and 1am this morning at Cambridge City Hall, after an afternoon-long party in front of the city hall. Everyone looks beautiful when they beam! And there were a lot of beaming faces there. I walked back home just as a line of policemen were walking back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-demand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}