{"id":5382,"date":"2012-05-31T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2012-05-31T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:07:07","slug":"jc-penny-out-gays-the-homophobes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/jc-penny-out-gays-the-homophobes\/","title":{"rendered":"JC Penny Out Gays the Homophobes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that boycott against JC Penny because they did something gay?  Which got totally Streisanded and converted into widespread pro-JC Penny sentiment?  Well, JC Penny is giving back to the Progressives and Pro-Gay community with a pro-gay Father&#8217;s Day Ad.<\/p>\n<p>The good news about Gay Fathers Day is that you didn&#8217;t have to get stuff for your mother of Mother&#8217;s Day.  The bad news is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the company, the two men who appear in the ad are &#8220;real-life dads Todd Koch and Cooper Smith,&#8221; and the jubilant children are their kids, Claire and Mason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First Pals: What makes Dad so cool?&#8221; reads the ad&#8217;s copy. &#8220;He&#8217;s the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver &#8211; all rolled into one. Or two.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5914527\/jcpenney-responds-to-homophobic-boycott-calls-with-gay-fathers-day-ad\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that boycott against JC Penny because they did something gay? Which got totally Streisanded and converted into widespread pro-JC Penny sentiment? Well, JC Penny is giving back to the Progressives and Pro-Gay community with a pro-gay Father&#8217;s Day Ad. The good news about Gay Fathers Day is that you didn&#8217;t have to get stuff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/jc-penny-out-gays-the-homophobes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JC Penny Out Gays the Homophobes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[230],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1oO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}