{"id":33,"date":"2004-08-12T18:43:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T22:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/08\/12\/33\/"},"modified":"2004-08-13T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T21:27:47","slug":"coast-to-coast-pride-or-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/08\/12\/33\/","title":{"rendered":"coast to coast pride or humility?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the television I watched San Francisco&#8217;s mayor give a concession speach after the California Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=5960064\"target=_blank>annuled<\/a> the 4,000 gay marriages the city courts granted.  Followed shortly by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.gov\/governor\/\"target=_blank>New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey<\/a> saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A60487-2004Aug12.html\"target=_blank>&#8216;I Am a Gay American&#8217;<\/a> and essentially resigning.  <\/p>\n<p>After the close election between Gavin Newsom &#038; green party candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattgonzalez.com\/\"target=_blank>Matt Gonzalez<\/a>, I was not expecting Newsom to be so bold by being the first mayor to sanction same-sex marriages.  Yet, as I watched pretty-boy Newsom speak, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder what Matt would have done.  As for McGreevey, his <a href=\"http:\/\/media.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/images\/I60601-2004Aug12L\"target=_blank>wife<\/a> is pretty cute, and I feel sorry for her more than I do for him.  I mean how would you like to stand next to your spouse at a press conference and have him tell the whole world your partner cheated on you with another person.  It takes some humilty thats for sure.<\/p>\n<p>August 11th, 2004 is another day where pride met hubris on the political battlefield.  I wonder how long the battle will last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the television I watched San Francisco&#8217;s mayor give a concession speach after the California Supreme Court annuled the 4,000 gay marriages the city courts granted. Followed shortly by New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey saying &#8216;I Am a Gay American&#8217; and essentially resigning. After the close election between Gavin Newsom &#038; green party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":42,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}