{"id":23965,"date":"2016-04-14T07:35:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23965"},"modified":"2016-04-14T07:35:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:35:02","slug":"dont-pass-me-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23965","title":{"rendered":"Don't Pass Me By"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/ringo-starr-cancels-north-carolina-concert-bathroom-bill\/story?id=38372365\">[Ringo] Starr announced today<\/a> that he has canceled an upcoming concert in North Carolina in response to the \"bathroom bill,\" which critics say places restrictions on members of the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement obtained by ABC News, Starr revealed that he canceled his All Starr Tour performance in Cary, North Carolina, this June in an act of solidarity with those \"fighting against the bigotry of HB2.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I'm sorry to disappoint my fans in the area, but we need to take a stand against this hatred,\" Starr said. \"Spread peace and love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \"How sad that they feel that this group of people cannot be defended.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good job, McCroury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ringo] Starr announced today that he has canceled an upcoming concert in North Carolina in response to the \"bathroom bill,\" which critics say places restrictions on members of the LGBT community. In a statement obtained by ABC News, Starr revealed that he canceled his All Starr Tour performance in Cary, North Carolina, this June in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23966,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions\/23966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}