{"id":430492,"date":"2017-02-14T05:32:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T10:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=430492"},"modified":"2017-02-14T05:32:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T10:32:33","slug":"nba-all-star-game-spotlights-lgbt-oasis-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=430492","title":{"rendered":"NBA All-Star game spotlights LGBT oasis in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nba-all-star-game-spotlights-lgbt-oasis-in-the-south\/16528020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/basketball\/nba\/2017\/02\/14\/16528020\/16528027-1487068329-uid14870683360067-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"All-Star_LGBT_Diversity_Basketball_30347\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The city hosting this year&#8217;s NBA All-Star game has long enjoyed a reputation as a welcoming place for the gay and lesbian community. New Orleans is home to one of the country&#8217;s oldest gay bars, the gay celebration Southern Decadence draws nearly 200,000 people yearly, and gay and lesbian authors flock here for the Saints and Sinners literary festival. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nba-all-star-game-spotlights-lgbt-oasis-in-the-south\/16528020\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nba-all-star-game-spotlights-lgbt-oasis-in-the-south\/16528020\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"NBA All-Star game spotlights LGBT oasis in the South\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city hosting this year&#8217;s NBA All-Star game has long enjoyed a reputation as a welcoming place for the gay and lesbian community. New Orleans is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}