{"id":55610,"date":"2001-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96a2b93b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"96a2b94c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96a2b94c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians protest kissing rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 About 100 protesters puckered up in public Sunday to protest restrictions on kissing at a Brisbane, Australia park.<\/p>\n<p>The mass smooch, at which 50 couples kissed, was a show of solidarity with two gay men who were ejected from the city-run South Bank Parklands last weekend for kissing in public.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Pendleton, a protester with the National Union of Students, accused the park of discriminating against homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t see South Bank Parklands kicking off heterosexuals you see at the park, so we don&#8217;t think there is any reason why gay couples should be not allowed to do that as well,&#8221; Pendleton said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the park said couples of both sexual persuasions had been asked to &#8220;tone it down&#8221; in the park, which is popular with families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 protesters puckered up in public Sunday to protest restrictions on kissing at a Brisbane, Australia park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}