{"id":24246,"date":"2020-10-28T20:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/28\/taiwanese-military-mass-wedding-to-feature-its-first-same-sex-couples"},"modified":"2020-10-28T20:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T11:20:33","slug":"taiwanese-military-mass-wedding-to-feature-its-first-same-sex-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24246","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese military mass wedding to feature its first same-sex couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two female soldiers and their civilian partners are due to take part in this year\u2019s ceremony<\/p>\n<p>Two same-sex couples are to be married in the Taiwanese army\u2019s annual mass wedding ceremony this week, in a first after the island\u2019s government legalised marriage equality 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The female soldiers and their civilian partners \u2013 Chen Ying-xuan and Lee Ying-ying, and Wang Yi and Meng Youmei \u2013 will wed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/28\/taiwanese-military-mass-wedding-to-feature-its-first-same-sex-couples\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two female soldiers and their civilian partners are due to take part in this year\u2019s ceremonyTwo same-sex couples are to be married in the Taiwanese army\u2019s annual mass wedding ceremony this week, in a first after the island\u2019s government legalised marria&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,72,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbt-rights","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24247,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions\/24247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}