{"id":2289,"date":"2004-03-02T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T07:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/02\/getting-closer\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:37:51","slug":"getting-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/02\/getting-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting closer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/nickels_sims_qu.html\" title=\"Nickels, Sims: Quit yappin' and start doin'!\">still not Seattle<\/a>, but it&#8217;s at least closer than San Francisco&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  PORTLAND, ORE. &#8211; It has happened in Massachusetts, San Francisco <a href=\"http:\/\/katu.com\/news\/story.asp?ID=65051\" title=\"County To Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses\">and now it is happening in Portland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  The Multnomah County Clerk&#8217;s office plans to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at their office located at 501 S.E. Hawthorne.<\/p>\n<p>  Oregon&#8217;s marriage law states that marriage is a civil contract entered by males who are at least 17 years old and females who are at least 17 years old.<\/p>\n<p>  A statement issued by the county said simply: &#8220;Based on a legal opinion released today by the County Attorney, a majority of the Board of County Commissioners supports a policy change to allow the county to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations, all you Portlanders!<\/p>\n<p>(many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/2hrlunch.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Two Hour Lunch\">Pops<\/a> for pointing this out in the comments <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/toilet_tourism.html#c677269\" title=\"Sorry - I forgot.\">here<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still not Seattle, but it&#8217;s at least closer than San Francisco&hellip;the Multnomah County (Portland, Oregon) Clerk&#8217;s office plans to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at their office located at 501 S.E. Hawthorne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}