{"id":6606,"date":"2011-07-25T06:11:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T11:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6606"},"modified":"2011-07-25T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T17:52:34","slug":"navin_weds_navi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/navin_weds_navi\/","title":{"rendered":"Navin Weds Navin in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"heart_20110725024657_18371.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/heart_20110725024657_18371.jpg\" width=\"103\" height=\"103\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/>Yesterday hundreds of gay couples got married in New York as a new law called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/assets\/marriageequalitybill.pdf\">Marriage Equality Act<\/a> went into effect making the state the sixth in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. Marcus and Freddy got married, Nancy and Yolanda got married, and wearing shorts and dapper bow ties, Navin wed Navin in Manhattan.<\/p>\n\n<p>The desi couple of Murray Hill, together for six years, was one of 20 newlywed pairs whose portraits appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/07\/24\/nyregion\/20110724-gaymarriage-portraits.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB\">The New York Times<\/a>. An audio recording of their comments on the joyous occasion published along with their portrait included the statement, &#8220;This feels so right to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Aseem Chhabra covered the Navins&#8217; New York nuptials at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/slide-show\/slide-show-1-indian-gay-couple-among-hundreds-wed-in-new-york\/20110725.htm\">Rediff news<\/a>, reporting that the couple held a commitment ceremony in California last month, prior to lining up on Sunday morning to have their marriage officially approved by the state of New York.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday hundreds of gay couples got married in New York as a new law called the Marriage Equality Act went into effect making the state the sixth in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. Navin wed Navin in Manhattan.<\/p> <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/navin_weds_navi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}