{"id":1987,"date":"2009-01-29T22:20:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T06:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/same-sex-marriage-kinder-to-earth\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T01:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:40:27","slug":"same-sex-marriage-kinder-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/same-sex-marriage-kinder-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage kinder to Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished reading \u201cOpposition to gay marriage &#8230; etc.,\u201d and in a way I had to kinda chuckle, because of things I\u2019ve heard about regarding that thing called \u201cMarriage.\u201d I am a handicapped World War II veteran, pushing 81, so I\u2019ve seen a lot and heard it in those years.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll never forget the headlines of a big newspaper telling about a male mayor who actually married his little goldfish he kept on his desk in his mayor\u2019s office. Yes, it was official, as his citizens needed a married man for mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the old cowboy who legally married a fence post because the city was going to destroy it and he needed it to tie his horse to when in town.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the man who married the moon all legally, and I well remember a woman who married her pet dog so they could not kill it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The elderly Mongolian religious man 114 years old and direct descendant of Genghis Khan that I met 60 years ago in Japan said that same-sex marriages were a blessing because it kept people from over-populating earth, or soon the food supply for humans would go, and we would all face starvation, due to overpopulation without food&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Man, those were the days&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Leon Thompson, Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished reading \u201cOpposition to gay marriage &#8230; etc.,\u201d and in a way I had to kinda chuckle, because of things I\u2019ve heard about regarding that thing called \u201cMarriage.\u201d I am a handicapped World War II veteran, pushing 81, so I\u2019ve seen a lot and heard it in those years. I\u2019ll never forget the headlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}