{"id":123,"date":"2009-02-27T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2009-02-27T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:53:00","slug":"royalty-is-not-what-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Royalty is not what it used to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Mason University made a bit of news this week when it elected a new homecoming queen.<\/p>\n<p>His name is Ryan Allen, also known as Reann Ballslee.<\/p>\n<p>Some people might call this a drag, some may call it &#8220;the power of diversity&#8221;. The fact is probably closer to a prank than anything else. It doesn&#8217;t really matter all that much, because the real win is this. A transgendered person is able to live openly on the college campus and run for a very public event.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying we are perfect as a society, but this is at least a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Mason University made a bit of news this week when it elected a new homecoming queen. His name is Ryan Allen, also known as Reann Ballslee. Some people might call this a drag, some may call it &#8220;the power of diversity&#8221;. The fact is probably closer to a prank than anything else. It doesn&#8217;t really matter all that much, because the real win is this. A transgendered person is able to live openly on the college campus and run for a very public event. I&#8217;m not saying we are perfect as a society, but this is at least a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=123\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Royalty is not what it used to be<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[145],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}