{"id":4817,"date":"2019-03-18T03:37:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2019-03-18T03:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:37:11","slug":"saint-patricks-pow-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/03\/18\/saint-patricks-pow-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Patrick&#8217;s Pow Wow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President&nbsp;<strong>Mike Pence&nbsp;<\/strong>invited the Irish Prime Minister to his home for a Saint Patrick\u2019s Day brunch.&nbsp; Nothing strange about that \u2013 except the Irish Prime Minister,&nbsp;<strong>Leo Varadkar<\/strong>, is gay and brought his male partner.&nbsp; And, of course, Pence has supported conversion therapy.&nbsp; Maybe it was all a plot \u2013 get the Irish gays drunk on beer, corned beef and cabbage, and then try to convert them with&nbsp;<strong>Mrs. Pence&nbsp;<\/strong>in a seductive flannel teddy.&nbsp; If that was the plan, it failed miserably.&nbsp; Turns out, Pence and Varadkar met last year, and the VP invited Leo and his partner to visit.&nbsp; So that\u2019s what they did.&nbsp; Varadkar made a speech about how the world has changed since he was young.&nbsp; \u201cI stand here leader of my country, flawed and human, but judged by my political actions and not my sexual orientation, my skin tone, gender, or religious beliefs.&nbsp; And I don\u2019t believe my country is the only one in the world where this story is possible.&nbsp; It is found in every country where freedom and liberty are cherished.&nbsp; We are, after all, all God\u2019s children.\u201d&nbsp; And that, kiddies, is how you do it.&nbsp; If you end with a bit about God, what\u2019s Pence gonna say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President&nbsp;Mike Pence&nbsp;invited the Irish Prime Minister to his home for a Saint Patrick\u2019s Day brunch.&nbsp; Nothing strange about that \u2013 except the Irish Prime Minister,&nbsp;Leo Varadkar, is gay and brought his male partner.&nbsp; And, of course, Pence has supported conversion therapy.&nbsp; Maybe it was all a plot \u2013 get the Irish gays drunk on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}