{"id":1060,"date":"2011-12-13T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2011-12-13T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:33:03","slug":"demint-blocks-confirmation-of-el-salvadors-ambassador-because-she-condemned-homophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/12\/demint-blocks-confirmation-of-el-salvadors-ambassador-because-she-condemned-homophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMint Blocks Confirmation Of El Salvador&#8217;s Ambassador Because She Condemned Homophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, Aponte penned an op-ed praising the Funes\u2019 directive, writing, \u201cNo one should be subjected to aggression because of who he is or who he loves. Homophobia and brutal hostility are often based on lack of understanding about what it truly means to be gay or transgender. To avoid negative perceptions, we must work together with education and support for those facing those who promote hatred.\u201d Anti-gay groups in El Salvador and DeMint objected to the sentiment:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2011\/12\/13\/388231\/demint-blocks-confirmation-of-el-salvadors-ambassador-because-she-condemned-homophobia\/\">DeMint Blocks Confirmation Of El Salvador&#8217;s Ambassador Because She Condemned Homophobia | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, Aponte penned an op-ed praising the Funes\u2019 directive, writing, \u201cNo one should be subjected to aggression because of who he is or who he loves. Homophobia and brutal hostility are often based on lack of understanding about what it truly means to be gay or transgender. To avoid negative perceptions, we must&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,17,18],"tags":[676,677,678,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}