{"id":38627,"date":"2013-06-09T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_d-c-_gay_pride_parade_includes_contingent_from_washington_nation\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T17:20:13","slug":"wash-_post_d-c-_gay_pride_parade_includes_contingent_from_washington_nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38627","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) D.C. gay pride parade includes contingent from Washington National Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Hall\u2019s pressed blue dress shirt and white clerical collar wasn\u2019t the most head-turning look in a crowd that featured a lot of drag queens with towering bouffants, but his presence in Saturday\u2019s gay pride parade through Washington was still a stunner for some.<\/p>\n<p>The Very Rev. Gary Hall, as he is formally known, led the first ever official contingent from Washington National Cathedral in the annual celebration of gay life in the District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t be walking bare-chested. I\u2019m kind of a reserved person,\u201d\u009d Hall said with a laugh before setting out from the staging area just west of Dupont Circle. \u201cBut if my being seen in the parade is a visible sign that God loves and accepts people across the full spectrum of human sexuality, it will have achieved its purpose.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-gay-pride-parade-includes-contingent-from-washington-national-cathedral\/2013\/06\/08\/6504588e-d064-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Hall\u2019s pressed blue dress shirt and white clerical collar wasn\u2019t the most head-turning look in a crowd that featured a lot of drag queens with towering bouffants, but his presence in Saturday\u2019s gay pride parade through Washington was still<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38627\">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":[36,39,42,576,175,66,168,98,112,159,380,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-tec-parishes","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627","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=38627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}