{"id":6602,"date":"2008-06-10T22:23:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_same_sex_ruling_drives_wedding_business_in_california\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:23:01","slug":"npr_same_sex_ruling_drives_wedding_business_in_california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6602","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Same-Sex Ruling Drives Wedding Business in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtually as soon as California&#8217;s Supreme Court announced it would legally recognize same-sex marriages starting June 17, wedding businesses started getting calls from thousands of gays and lesbians planning their nuptials. A vast array of businesses has begun wooing the couples \u201d\u201d Macy&#8217;s, for example, recently took out a huge ad in several newspapers celebrating the ruling and promoting its wedding registry.<\/p>\n<p>Rena Puebla and her business partner, Ellie Genuardi, were ahead of the curve. A few years ago, the pair formed Renellie, a company that offers the traditional figurines that top wedding cakes to a not-so traditional clientele. Renellie&#8217;s smiling hand-painted couples, like those they represent, are interracial or same sex. Or both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91335836\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtually as soon as California&#8217;s Supreme Court announced it would legally recognize same-sex marriages starting June 17, wedding businesses started getting calls from thousands of gays and lesbians planning their nuptials. A vast array of businesses has begun wooing the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6602\">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":[39,576,114,98,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602","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=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}