{"id":3858,"date":"2015-05-22T11:16:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2017-03-01T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:52:16","slug":"marriage-equality-in-ireland-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2015\/05\/22\/marriage-equality-in-ireland-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Equality in Ireland: Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026What will you do next?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides being King? Well, there was something else\u2026\u201d He looked at [Prince] Herewiss. \u201cSince we don\u2019t have to be running all over the place any more, I thought we might get married.\u201d (The Door into Sunset, 1992)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today the land of poets and scholars, the country with more Nobel prize winners for literature to its credit than any other on the planet, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thirty-fourth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_%28Marriage_Equality%29_Bill_2015\" target=\"_blank\">goes to the polls <\/a>to vote on the proposition that its Constitution be amended to grant equality in marriage for couples of the same sex.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com\/products\/the-door-into-sunset\" target=\"_blank\">in my fiction<\/a> people of the same sex have been getting married since the early 90s, it shouldn\u2019t be hard for anyone to guess which way I\u2019m voting.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re Irish, and you\u2019re a registered voter: please get out there today and make your opinion known.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 39px; left: 190px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201c\u2026What will you do next?\u201d \u201cBesides being King? Well, there was something else\u2026\u201d He looked at [Prince] Herewiss. \u201cSince we don\u2019t have to be running all over the place&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ireland","category-life","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marriage Equality in Ireland: Yes - Out of Ambit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2015\/05\/22\/marriage-equality-in-ireland-yes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marriage Equality in Ireland: Yes - Out of Ambit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; \u201c\u2026What will you do next?\u201d \u201cBesides being King? 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