{"id":1049,"date":"2014-07-10T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2014-07-10T17:39:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:39:34","slug":"california-removes-gender-specific-wedding-license-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1049","title":{"rendered":"California Removes Gender-Specific Wedding License Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a minor move that still manages to provoke the same eye-roll-worthy responses from the anti-LGBT crowd, the state of California moved this week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilerico.com\/2014\/07\/ca_removes_gender-specific_language_from_marriage_.php\">to remove gender-based language from their marriage certificates<\/a>. Instead of the terms &#8220;husband&#8221; and &#8220;wife,&#8221; the state will now have two spaces that say &#8220;spouse&#8221; and will refer to the individuals in other spaces as a &#8220;married person.&#8221; The law passed easily inside the California legislature, and it will take effect on January 1, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a minor move that still manages to provoke the same eye-roll-worthy responses from the anti-LGBT crowd, the state of California moved this week to remove gender-based language from their marriage certificates. Instead of the terms &#8220;husband&#8221; and &#8220;wife,&#8221; the state will now have two spaces that say &#8220;spouse&#8221; and will refer to the individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}