{"id":624,"date":"2014-02-13T19:21:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T03:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:58:34","slug":"sam-family-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/02\/13\/sam-family-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Family Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The father of Michael Sam, the potential NFL player who came out as gay this week, is apparently more upset by his son&#8217;s coming out as gay than by his earlier sons having died or ending up in jail.<\/p>\n<p>William Saletan: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/saletan\/2014\/02\/12\/michael_sam_s_father_shows_gay_men_can_have_better_family_values_than_straight.html\">Michael Sam\u2019s Family Values<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut here\u2019s one prediction you can bet on: The family he builds as a gay man will be better than the \u201cold school\u201d family he grew up in. It won\u2019t just be more tolerant. It will be more principled, better organized, and more useful to society. The next time you hear somebody talk about \u201cfamily values,\u201d remember that.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father of Michael Sam, the potential NFL player who came out as gay this week, is apparently more upset by his son&#8217;s coming out as gay than by his earlier sons having died or ending up in jail. William &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/02\/13\/sam-family-values\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-gays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}