{"id":678408,"date":"2010-03-01T08:29:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=94869"},"modified":"2010-03-01T08:29:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:29:50","slug":"clay-aiken-delivers-speech-on-gay-rights-at-hrc-carolinas-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/678408","title":{"rendered":"Clay Aiken Delivers Speech On Gay Rights At HRC Carolinas Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two years after disclosing that he is homosexual, former <em>American Idol<\/em> Clay Aiken took a stand for gay rights at an event over the weekend. Aiken delivered the keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign Carolinas Gala in his hometown of Raleigh on Saturday night &#8212; and to quote the <em>Idol<\/em> Season 2 runner-up: <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s about damn time&#8230;..&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2_lNJS8_02XHw3-0DSK7_uFNpnU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2_lNJS8_02XHw3-0DSK7_uFNpnU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2_lNJS8_02XHw3-0DSK7_uFNpnU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2_lNJS8_02XHw3-0DSK7_uFNpnU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two years after disclosing that he is homosexual, former American Idol Clay Aiken took a stand for gay rights at an event over the weekend. Aiken delivered the keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign Carolinas Gala in his hometown of Raleigh on Saturday night &#8212; and to quote the Idol Season 2 runner-up: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Qu4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}