{"id":239,"date":"2011-09-18T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=239"},"modified":"2011-09-18T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:50:13","slug":"michigan-house-moves-to-ban-domestic-partnership-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/michigan-house-moves-to-ban-domestic-partnership-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan House Moves to Ban Domestic Partnership Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic partners of Michigan state employees were supposed to start getting state benefits on October 1, but the Republican-controlled state House is\u00a0having none of that:<\/p>\n<p>The bills,\u00a0HB 4770\u00a0and\u00a04771, prohibit any government entity in the state &#8211; including universities and city governments &#8211; from providing such benefits and prohibit unions from including them in collective bargaining agreements.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/newsandviews\/article\/667951\/michigan_house_bans_domestic_partnership_benefits\/\">Michigan House Bans Domestic Partnership Benefits | AlterNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic partners of Michigan state employees were supposed to start getting state benefits on October 1, but the Republican-controlled state House is\u00a0having none of that: The bills,\u00a0HB 4770\u00a0and\u00a04771, prohibit any government entity in the state &#8211; including universities and city governments &#8211; from providing such benefits and prohibit unions from including them in collective bargaining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,7],"tags":[124,122,123,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}