{"id":14669,"date":"2014-05-17T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T11:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14669"},"modified":"2014-05-17T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T11:34:38","slug":"love-is-a-many-splendoured-thing-except-in-76-countries-where-being-gay-is-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14669","title":{"rendered":"Love is a many splendoured thing &#8211; except in 76 countries where being gay is illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Five countries \u2013 Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen \u2013 still have a statutory death penalty for homosexuality, while a further 71 countries punish same-sex couples with lesser sentences of imprisonment or corporal punishment.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 2.79 billion people live in countries where being gay can lead to prison or death \u2013 seven times as many as live in countries with same-sex marriage.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See news item <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/may\/16\/countries-where-being-gay-is-a-crime\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Five countries \u2013 Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen \u2013 still have a statutory death penalty for homosexuality, while a further 71 countries punish same-sex couples with lesser sentences of imprisonment or corporal punishment. In total, 2.79 billion people live in countries where being gay can lead to prison or death \u2013 seven times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14671,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions\/14671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}