{"id":1700,"date":"2015-03-01T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2015-02-26T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:57:44","slug":"new-emojis-feature-more-diverse-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1700","title":{"rendered":"New emojis feature more diverse families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s newest OS update <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/02\/24\/apple-announces-emoji-featuring-a-range-of-same-sex-couples-and-families\/\">will come packaged with hundreds more emojis<\/a> for people to use to communicate. The pictures that include people will allow for a variety of skin tones, and the number of images featuring same sex families and pairings has increased dramatically. While a release date is yet unknown, this release will respond to criticism that the handful of options previously available did not adequately represent the community using Apple devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Apple&#8217;s newest OS update will come packaged with hundreds more emojis for people to use to communicate. The pictures that include people will allow for a variety of skin tones, and the number of images featuring same sex families and pairings has increased dramatically. While a release date is yet unknown, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","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\/1700","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=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}