{"id":7618,"date":"2014-01-14T09:01:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2014-01-14T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:01:02","slug":"so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7618","title":{"rendered":"So It Begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from Towleroad&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 itemprop=\"name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2014\/01\/nigeria-has-arrested-38-gay-men-from-list-of-168-human-rights-group.html\">Nigeria Has Arrested 38 Gay Men from List of 168<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Dorothy Aken&#8217;Ova is executive director of Nigeria&#8217;s International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights. She said Tuesday the new law, already being dubbed the &ldquo;Jail the Gays&rdquo; law, will endanger and even criminalize programs fighting HIV-AIDS in the gay community.<\/p>\n<p>She said police in Bauchi state have a list of 168 purportedly gay men, of whom 38 have been arrested recently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was a list all ready and waiting. \u00a0 How unsurprising.<\/p>\n<p>So it begins, while the rest of the civilized world a) wrings its hands, b) issues a strongly worded protest, c) washes, rinses, and repeats. \u00a0 Practice makes perfect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/broken_glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7619\" alt=\"broken_glass\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/broken_glass.jpg\" width=\"714\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/broken_glass.jpg 714w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/broken_glass-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from Towleroad&#8230; Nigeria Has Arrested 38 Gay Men from List of 168 Dorothy Aken&#8217;Ova is executive director of Nigeria&#8217;s International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights. She said Tuesday the new law, already being dubbed the &ldquo;Jail the Gays&rdquo; law, will endanger and even criminalize programs fighting HIV-AIDS in the gay community. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32,21,90],"class_list":["post-7618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-hate","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-human-gutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}