{"id":1556,"date":"2008-09-25T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2008-09-25T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:44:00","slug":"california-is-very-different-from-canada-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/09\/25\/california-is-very-different-from-canada-it-seems\/","title":{"rendered":"California is very different from Canada, it seems&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in following some of the press about Proposition 8, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc4.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=feee2be8-bd9c-4314-88bf-e2e60ae2bca4\" target=\"_blank\">THIS STORY<\/a> which also led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc4.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=3fae2896-5b86-48ca-8857-ef827806a09c\" target=\"_blank\">THIS OTHER STORY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall the LDS church being quite so forceful in defending the traditional definition of marriage in Canada, but they sure are pushing it in California.<\/p>\n<p>Does this say something about how much they pay attention to Canada, or is it just the the &#8216;States are more important?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in following some of the press about Proposition 8, I came across THIS STORY which also led me to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2008\/09\/25\/california-is-very-different-from-canada-it-seems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California is very different from Canada, it seems&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin 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