{"id":1,"date":"2008-11-05T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/?p=1"},"modified":"2009-01-10T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T19:46:03","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"On Prop 8 Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I bless my anger. It tells me I am alive.<br \/>\nI bless my sadness. It reminds me I am real.<br \/>\nI bless my confusion. Out of it comes clarity.<br \/>\nI bless my tears. They heal me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Perry Tilleraas, 1988<\/p>\n<p>No matter how they voted yesterday,<br \/>\nFirst thing in the morning, I will cast a vote for myself.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Even if I decided against myself as child,<br \/>\nAnd thought I could never be happy,<\/p>\n<p>I will begin reversing the old judgments<br \/>\nI harbor against myself,<\/p>\n<p>I claim the power to judge for myself,<br \/>\nin every area of my own life.<\/p>\n<p>No constitutional amendment will keep me<br \/>\nFrom meaningful, satisfying relationships.<\/p>\n<p>I reach out and my needs are met.<br \/>\nIn meditation and prayer, I find serenity.<\/p>\n<p>I am more than a person being discriminated against.<br \/>\nI survive and persevere.<\/p>\n<p>I am a being of light and love.<br \/>\nI am a soul \u2013 yearning, expansive, timeless.<\/p>\n<p>I am free.\u00a0\u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211;Michael Leslie, Nov. 5, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bless my anger. It tells me I am alive. I bless my sadness. It reminds me I am real. I bless my confusion. Out of it comes clarity. I bless my tears. They heal me. &#8211;Perry Tilleraas, 1988 No matter how they voted yesterday, First thing in the morning, I will cast a vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16,26,8,5,7],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-civil-rights","tag-inspiration","tag-lgbt","tag-prayer","tag-prop-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gayasianchristians.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}