{"id":40749,"date":"2011-06-26T03:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T07:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=40749"},"modified":"2011-06-26T03:36:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T07:36:15","slug":"a-good-read-ny-times-on-how-cuomo-got-marriage-equality-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/glbt-rights\/a-good-read-ny-times-on-how-cuomo-got-marriage-equality-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Good read: NYT on how Cuomo got marriage equality through"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40750\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/600+web-nyt-gay-marriage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/600+web-nyt-gay-marriage.jpg?resize=600%2C377&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"600+web-nyt-gay-marriage\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/600+web-nyt-gay-marriage.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/600+web-nyt-gay-marriage.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a NY Times article published Saturday. Link below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/26\/nyregion\/the-road-to-gay-marriage-in-new-york.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;hp\"><strong>one of the best NY Times articles<\/strong><\/a> I&#8217;ve read in years, a behind the scenes description of how Cuomo, working with some Wall Street conservatives who donate to politics, as well as a tightly organized coalition of gay rights organizations, got the issue through. I am putting this up mainly for those who have some aspiration of accomplishing anything through politics. It&#8217;s always the same. You have to build a coalition to stand up against the chickenshits who will only vote the party line. Then, it&#8217;s history. I mean that literally: all the former opponents disappear into the mists of time, the better to be forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the best NY Times articles I&#8217;ve read in years, a behind the scenes description of how Cuomo, working with some Wall Street conservatives who donate to politics, as well as a tightly organized coalition of gay rights organizations, got the issue through. I am putting this up mainly for those who &#8230; <a title=\"Good read: NYT on how Cuomo got marriage equality through\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/glbt-rights\/a-good-read-ny-times-on-how-cuomo-got-marriage-equality-through\/\" aria-label=\"More on Good read: NYT on how Cuomo got marriage equality through\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[526],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}