{"id":15147,"date":"2009-09-24T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/150000_same_sex_couples_report_theyre_married\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:46:12","slug":"150000_same_sex_couples_report_theyre_married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15147","title":{"rendered":"150,000 Same Sex couples report they&#39;re married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples reported being in marriage relationships last year, many more than the number of actual weddings and civil unions, according to the first U.S. census figures released on same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n<p>About 27 percent of the estimated 564,743 total gay couples in the United States said they were in a relationship akin to &#8220;husband&#8221; and &#8220;wife,&#8221; according to the Census Bureau tally provided to The Associated Press. That&#8217;s compared with 91 percent of the 61.3 million total opposite-sex couples who reported being married.<\/p>\n<p>A consultant to the Census Bureau estimated there were roughly 100,000 official same-sex weddings, civil unions and domestic partnerships in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090922\/ap_on_go_ot\/us_census_gay_marriage\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples reported being in marriage relationships last year, many more than the number of actual weddings and civil unions, according to the first U.S. census figures released on same-sex marriages. About 27 percent of the estimated 564,743<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15147\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,576,209,114,98,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-americau-s-a","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}