{"id":160204,"date":"2012-02-09T15:56:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=160204"},"modified":"2012-02-09T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:56:47","slug":"ram-and-deer-to-marry-in-china-zoo-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/09\/ram-and-deer-to-marry-in-china-zoo-on-valentines-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Ram and Deer to Marry in China Zoo on Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look like China&#8217;s animal parks are subtly attempting to lead the way in liberalizing attitudes towards nontraditional relationships in the motherland. Not two months after Harbin allowed <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2011\/12\/07\/gay_male_penguins_become_adoptive_p.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">two gay penguin parents to adopt<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, now the Yunnan Wild Animal Park is promoting interracial marriage! To celebrate the love between &#8220;Long Hair&#8221;\u00a0 the ram and &#8220;Junko&#8221; the deer, they will hold a wedding ceremony on Valentine&#8217;s Day next week.<\/p>\n<p>Junko and Long Hair&#8217;s relationship first came to light late last fall, when <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2011\/12\/08\/ram-deer-porn.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">pictures of them getting jiggy with it went viral on Weibo<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The park claims they want to use this event to promote acceptance of interracial marriage (we&#8217;ll refrain from questioning the comparison of two races wedding with the unnatural mating of two completely different species). We&#8217;re just happy the two get to make their love official and stop living in sin, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2012\/02\/07\/sheep_and_deer_to_marry_at_kunming.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Shanghaiist<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look like China&#8217;s animal parks are subtly attempting to lead the way in liberalizing attitudes towards nontraditional relationships in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37978,37977,37975,37976,37974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}