{"id":59129,"date":"2021-06-13T23:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T06:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=59129"},"modified":"2021-06-13T23:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T06:39:44","slug":"kamala-harris-is-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/06\/13\/kamala-harris-is-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris is Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cNow, therefore, I, <strong>Joseph R. Biden Jr<\/strong>., President of the United States of America<br \/>\n\u2026do hereby proclaim June 2021 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,<br \/>\nand Queer Pride Month.&nbsp; I call upon the people of the United States to recognize<br \/>\nthe achievements of the LGBTQ+ community, to celebrate the great diversity<br \/>\nof the American people, and to wave their flags of pride high.\u201d <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>President Joe Biden<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite <strong>President Biden <\/strong>allowing US embassies around the world to fly the rainbow flag during <em>Pride Month<\/em>, many demurred.&nbsp; The <em>Pentagon <\/em>banned the flag from flying outside of military bases.&nbsp; The more things change\u2026&nbsp; And then, out of the blue, everything changed with the single act of a single person.&nbsp; It helps when that single person is the sitting Vice President of the United States.&nbsp; Without any fanfare, <strong>Kamala Harris <\/strong>(and second dude, <strong>Doug<\/strong>) showed up at <strong><em>Capital Pride <\/em><\/strong>celebrations in DC.&nbsp; Just by strolling around wearing a \u201cLove Is Love\u201d tee, waving to people and saying, \u201cHappy Pride\u201d, history was made.&nbsp; Remember that when you wonder if your voice matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow, therefore, I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States of America \u2026do hereby proclaim June 2021 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month.&nbsp; I call upon the people of the United States to recognize the achievements of the LGBTQ+ community, to celebrate the great diversity of the American people, and<\/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-59129","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\/59129","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=59129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59139,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59129\/revisions\/59139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}