{"id":1100,"date":"2013-01-28T18:08:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2013-01-28T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:08:54","slug":"when-he-was-a-lad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/when-he-was-a-lad\/","title":{"rendered":"When He Was a Lad"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>by Monica Zucker <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>tune: from Pinafore, Gilbert &amp; Sullivan<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(Solo)<\/em> When he was a lad of twenty-three<br \/>\nHe said Ma, I\u2019m gay, and I gotta be me.<br \/>\nShe said, son, you\u2019re the apple of my eye\u2014<br \/>\nGay or straight, you\u2019re my kind of guy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He conquered life\u2019s hurdles, and now you see<br \/>\nHe\u2019s a VIP in the community.<\/li>\n<li><em>(All)<\/em> He conquered life\u2019s hurdles so perfectly<br \/>\nThat he\u2019s taught us all a lesson in liberty!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(Solo) <\/em>He was first in his troop to be Eagle Scout\u2014<br \/>\nNow the BSA says \u201cSorry, you\u2019re out!\u201d<br \/>\nThe Army beckoned. \u201cDon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell.\u201d<br \/>\nThat wasn\u2019t his dish\u2014and that\u2019s just as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He conquered life\u2019s hurdles, and now you see<br \/>\nHe\u2019s a VIP in the community.<\/li>\n<li><em>(All)<\/em> He conquered life\u2019s hurdles so perfectly<br \/>\nThat he\u2019s taught us all a lesson in liberty!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(Solo)<\/em> When you judge a person on the basis of sex<br \/>\nYou use a very narrow and warped index.<br \/>\nLesbians and gays are in every field<br \/>\nAnd their human rights can never be repealed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>(All)<\/em> And they are your children and your uncles and your friends,<br \/>\n<em>(Left)<\/em> And your pastors and your bankers\u2014<br \/>\n<em>(Right)<\/em> And the captains of oil tankers\u2014<br \/>\n<em>(Left)<\/em> And your lawyers and your doctors\u2014<br \/>\n<em>(Right)<\/em> And your tight ends and your blockers\u2014<br \/>\n<em>(All)<\/em> And your sisters and your cousins\u2014<br \/>\nWhom you number by the dozens\u2014<br \/>\nAnd your aunts!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Monica Zucker tune: from Pinafore, Gilbert &amp; Sullivan (Solo) When he was a lad of twenty-three He said Ma, I\u2019m gay, and I gotta be me. She said, son, you\u2019re the apple of my eye\u2014 Gay or straight, you\u2019re my kind of guy. He conquered life\u2019s hurdles, and now you see He\u2019s a VIP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}