{"id":10985,"date":"2012-05-17T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10985"},"modified":"2012-05-17T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T16:50:18","slug":"who-will-n-c-marriage-amendment-backers-target-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/05\/17\/who-will-n-c-marriage-amendment-backers-target-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will N.C. marriage amendment backers target next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"McClatchy Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2012\/05\/17\/148732\/commentary-who-will-nc-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Who will N.C. marriage amendment backers target next?<\/strong><\/a> is an excellent commentary from <em>McClatchy<\/em> <em>News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the commentary itself, it quotes something that I always think about and now have an opportunity to post so that I can remember these beautifully written words.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Theologian Martin Niemoller predicted what will happen then when he wrote:<\/p>\n<p>First they came for the communists, and I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a communist.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a trade unionist.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the Jews, and I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a Jew.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a Jew, I am one step down on the ladder from most of the rest of you.\u00a0 Maybe that is why these thoughts speak to me so loudly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who will N.C. marriage amendment backers target next? is an excellent commentary from McClatchy News. Besides the commentary itself, it quotes something that I always think about and now have an opportunity to post so that I can remember these beautifully written words. Theologian Martin Niemoller predicted what will happen then when he wrote: First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10986,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}