{"id":1666,"date":"2015-02-15T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2015-02-23T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:27:09","slug":"first-male-same-sex-couple-chosen-for-ceremonial-first-kiss-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1666","title":{"rendered":"First male same-sex couple chosen for ceremonial first kiss in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the submarine USS San Francisco returned home to San Diego this week, it marked a first in military history. For the first time, a male same-sex couple was chosen for the ceremonial first kiss for sailors coming home. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/San-Diego-Couple-Shares-First-Ever-Male-Same-Sex-Ceremonial-First-Kiss-291344541.html\">NBC San Diego:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thomas Sawicki and his boyfriend Shawn Brier were the lucky couple chosen to share the first kiss off the ship as the fast-attack submarine reunited with its home port at Naval Base Point Loma Monday afternoon. Families lined the dock awaiting the arrival of husbands, sons, dads and brothers returning from a seven-month stint in the Western Pacific.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman When the submarine USS San Francisco returned home to San Diego this week, it marked a first in military history. For the first time, a male same-sex couple was chosen for the ceremonial first kiss for sailors coming home. Via NBC San Diego: Thomas Sawicki and his boyfriend Shawn Brier were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","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\/1666","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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}