{"id":720477,"date":"2010-04-20T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011653396_obamamandateshospitalvisitspowerofattorneytogaycouples.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-20T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:12:09","slug":"obama-mandates-hospital-visits-power-of-attorney-to-gay-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/720477","title":{"rendered":"Obama mandates hospital visits, power of attorney to gay couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Visitation rights a big step for gay-rights movement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a response to \u201cObama to hospitals: open up on visits for gays\u201d [page one, April 16].<\/p>\n<p>I would simply like to say that I believe this is a big step forward for the gay-rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>Though some people feel President Barack Obama is not doing enough or is not moving fast enough in the area of gay rights, I think that in some cases you have to take things one step at a time. Obama is doing all that he can under the circumstances to make sure that each step is as big as possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Kate Holmes, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitation rights a big step for gay-rights movement This is a response to \u201cObama to hospitals: open up on visits for gays\u201d [page one, April 16]. I would simply like to say that I believe this is a big step forward for the gay-rights movement. Though some people feel President Barack Obama is not doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"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-720477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31qB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720477","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\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}