{"id":7882,"date":"2013-05-18T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french-president-signs-gay-marriage-into-law\/"},"modified":"2013-05-18T07:06:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T07:06:04","slug":"french-president-signs-gay-marriage-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/french-president-signs-gay-marriage-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"French President signs Gay Marriage into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{French President Francois Hollande has signed a law authorizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate.}}<\/p>\n<p>His signature means the first gay marriages may be celebrated in France within about 10 days. <\/p>\n<p>Hollande&#8217;s office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council struck down a challenge to the law.<\/p>\n<p>Hollande, a Socialist, had made legalizing gay marriage one of his campaign pledges last year. <\/p>\n<p>While polls for years have shown majority support for gay marriage in France, adoption by same-sex couples is more controversial. <\/p>\n<p>The bill prompted months of widespread protests, largely by conservative and religious groups. Some were marred by clashes with police.<\/p>\n<p>It became a flashpoint for frustrations at the increasingly unpopular Hollande.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2720 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rew.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{French President Francois Hollande has signed a law authorizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate.}} His signature means the first gay marriages may be celebrated in France within about 10 days. Hollande&#8217;s office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}