{"id":10490,"date":"2007-04-19T16:40:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/04\/19\/10490.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:25","slug":"there-is-crying-in-lawmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/04\/19\/there-is-crying-in-lawmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"There is crying in lawmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> As Your Humble Blogger settles in to West Hartford with the intention of (gasp) staying, local politics looks more interesting. Our state is discussing gay marriage, and I happen to live in the next district over from the only State Senator who is in a civil union at the moment. Beth Bye's emotional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x1qn0y_bethbye\">testimony<\/a>  is (in my arrogant opinion) worth watching, not as a great moment in lawmaking, but as a reminder that legislators are <i>people<\/i>, who live under the laws they make.\n\n<p><i>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/i><br>\n-Vardibidian. <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> As Your Humble Blogger settles in to West Hartford with the intention of (gasp) staying, local politics looks more interesting. Our state is discussing gay marriage, and I happen to live in the next district over from the only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18003,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions\/18003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}