{"id":35,"date":"2004-02-19T11:55:02","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2004-02-19T11:55:02","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T18:55:02","slug":"because-straight-or-gay-we-believe-and-we-know-many-people-who-believe-support-and-celebrate-the-right-to-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/19\/because-straight-or-gay-we-believe-and-we-know-many-people-who-believe-support-and-celebrate-the-right-to-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Because straight or gay, we believe and we know many people who believe, support and celebrate the right to marriage.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An LJer from Minnesota <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/twin_cities\/517426.html#cutid1\">had a neat idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Today a coworker of mine had a thought to send flowers to a random couple waiting in line at SF city hall.<\/p>\n<p>He called a florist and they agreed to do it. He told them to deliver to any couple &#8212; it didn&#8217;t matter who &#8212; standing in line to get married, with his blessing. The card will read simply &#8220;With love, from Minneapolis, Minnesota.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once they understood, they were very touched and thought it was a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>He told another co-worker who did the same thing. And now we want to start a movement. Wouldn&#8217;t that be cool if people from all over the country, gay, straight and otherwise, started sending flowers to the people waiting in line to get married.<\/p>\n<p>Call it The Big Gay Bouquet call it Flowers from the Heartland. Call it whatever you want, but help us get this off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Call Flowers on the Bay at 888-217-9119 and order a bouquet to be delivered tomorrow at noon.<\/p>\n<p>And Tell all of your friends to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Because straight or gay, we believe and we know many people who believe, support and celebrate the right to marriage. And we&#8217;d like to show it. We&#8217;d like to see all of the people standing in line with flowers of support from all over the country.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If anyone wants to call up some Berkeley florists and do the same thing, I&#8217;d be happy to put in some money.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the AP ran a story on Persian blogs today as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeranian.net\/2004\/02\/19,774.shtml\">the Eyeranian (Pedram)<\/a> points out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An LJer from Minnesota had a neat idea: Today a coworker of mine had a thought to send flowers to a random couple waiting in line at SF city hall. He called a florist and they agreed to do it. He told them to deliver to any couple &#8212; it didn&#8217;t matter who &#8212; standing in line to get married, with his blessing. The card will read simply &#8220;With love, from Minneapolis, Minnesota.&#8221; Once they understood, they were very touched&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}