{"id":1340,"date":"2014-10-17T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2014-10-17T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T19:01:42","slug":"north-carolina-says-the-show-cant-go-on-probably-because-of-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1340","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina says the show can&#8217;t go on (probably because of gays)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A high school production of <i>Almost, Maine\u00a0<\/i>has had the remainder of its rehearsals and all of its performances cancelled by the principal of a high school in Maiden, North Carolina. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/2014\/10\/15\/67488\">GayStarNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The school\u2019s principal, Rob Bliss, has released a statement surrounding the outrage.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018In regards to the request for students to perform the play \u201cAlmost Maine,\u201d careful review and consideration was given to the contents of this play.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The play contained sexually-explicit overtones and multiple sexual innuendos that are not aligned with our mission and educational objectives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018As principal of Maiden High School, I have an obligation to ensure that all material, including drama performances is appropriate and educationally sound for students of all ages.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Almost, Maine\u00a0<\/em>follows several unconnected love stories that all take place in a small town, one of which features a same sex relationship. Individuals on the ground in North Carolina are saying that this is the likely reason that the play has been targeted for cancellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A high school production of Almost, Maine\u00a0has had the remainder of its rehearsals and all of its performances cancelled by the principal of a high school in Maiden, North Carolina. Via GayStarNews: The school\u2019s principal, Rob Bliss, has released a statement surrounding the outrage. He said: \u2018In regards to the request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}