{"id":847,"date":"2014-04-29T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=847"},"modified":"2014-04-28T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T19:25:38","slug":"19-members-of-congress-seek-ioc-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/847","title":{"rendered":"19 Members of Congress Seek IOC Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteen members of Congress have asked the International Olympic Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/chrisgeidner\/members-of-congress-urge-olympic-committee-to-add-lgbt-prote\">to amend its charter<\/a> later this year to bar anti-LGBT discrimination. This comes after the significant outpouring of anger and anti-Olympics sentiment after the 2014 Winter Olympics were hosted in Russia. Russia&#8217;s anti-gay propaganda law has been widely criticized, and it led to a flurry of protests before and throughout the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteen members of Congress have asked the International Olympic Committee to amend its charter later this year to bar anti-LGBT discrimination. This comes after the significant outpouring of anger and anti-Olympics sentiment after the 2014 Winter Olympics were hosted in Russia. Russia&#8217;s anti-gay propaganda law has been widely criticized, and it led to a flurry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","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\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}