{"id":2133,"date":"2011-06-25T08:20:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T13:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2020-01-03T20:03:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T01:03:32","slug":"can-job-and-new-yorks-gay-marriage-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/can-job-and-new-yorks-gay-marriage-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Job and New York&#8217;s Gay Marriage Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this cracks me up.<\/p>\n<p>One of my characters in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37ynJ1p\"><em>Can Job<\/em><\/a><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=outwittingdog-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004QWZ94U&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em> &#8212; the heroine&#8217;s best friend &#8212; is gay, and in one of the first scenes in the book Taylor joins her at a protest related to a gay marriage bill in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, the book is not really political, unless you count poking fun at politicians as &#8220;political.&#8221; The particular pol that figures in this scene is Bo Valgus, whose biggest mistake was not his position no the issue necessarily but that he wasn&#8217;t quick enough to voice support for it during a local radio interview. This being fiction, I also couldn&#8217;t miss a chance to take a dig at a certain former state governor :-)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The DJ had asked his opinion about same-sex marriage and he\u2019d answered \u201cI haven\u2019t had a chance to think about it, to tell the truth.\u201d The idiot. Everyone knew that a same sex marriage would have come to the floor if ex-Governor Eminent Flipzer\u2019s ungovernable hetero sex drives hadn\u2019t led him to disgrace and ruin. Well, if not ruin, then a brief time-out to think about what a bad boy he\u2019d been.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, the legislature had become suddenly paranoid about any issue associated with the letters s-e-x.<\/p>\n<p>And so here they were, to express their chagrin with Bo Valgus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m laughing today because only a couple months after self-pubbing the novel, a same-sex marriage bill has now passed in our state.<\/p>\n<p>My book is already dated!<\/p>\n<p>lol<\/p>\n<p>But I really couldn&#8217;t be more pleased :-)<\/p>\n<p>As one of my FB friends posted, it&#8217;s a great day to be a New York Stater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this cracks me up. One of my characters in Can Job &#8212; the heroine&#8217;s best friend &#8212; is gay, and in one of the first scenes in the book Taylor joins her at a protest related to a gay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/can-job-and-new-yorks-gay-marriage-bill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,252,3],"tags":[399,237,238,280,250,266],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-publishing","category-ebooks","category-writing","tag-can-job","tag-e-books","tag-kindle","tag-nook","tag-novels","tag-smashwords"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6422,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}