{"id":15370,"date":"2019-02-15T01:45:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T08:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15370"},"modified":"2019-02-15T01:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T08:45:51","slug":"red-pandas-penguins-and-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/02\/15\/red-pandas-penguins-and-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Pandas, Penguins, and Same-Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A couple of years ago, a penguin at a zoo (names Grape-kun), became enamored with a 2D character of a penguin-girl from the anime show &#8220;Kemono Friends&#8221;. Your humble author at the time noted that if &#8220;gay&#8221; penguins were &#8220;scientific proof&#8221; that same-sex coupling was valid, then having an &#8220;anime waifu&#8221; was now <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/05\/05\/anime-waifus-now-as-valid-as-homosexuality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">valid<\/a> and otakus should be considered a protected class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vae_00\/status\/1091481861816270848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another example<\/a> from the animal kingdom has arisen, in this case from a red panda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Grape-kun was patient zero. It&#39;s spreading. We&#39;re turning endangered animals into weebs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/luTyd2FsjJ\">pic.twitter.com\/luTyd2FsjJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vae (@Vae_00) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vae_00\/status\/1091481861816270848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If you don&#8217;t celebrate the love of a kemonomimi waifu, then you are a H8r.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/red-panda-kemono-friends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/red-panda-kemono-friends.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/red-panda-kemono-friends-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/red-panda-kemono-friends-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/red-panda-kemono-friends-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/red-panda-kemono-friends-940x198.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Red Pandas, Penguins, and Same-Sex Marriage\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A couple of years ago, a penguin at a zoo (names Grape-kun), became enamored with a 2D character of a penguin-girl from the anime show 'Kemono Friends'.  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Your humble author at the time noted that if &#8220;gay&#8221; penguins were &#8220;scientific &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/02\/15\/red-pandas-penguins-and-same-sex-marriage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[64,86],"class_list":["post-15370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-science","tag-lulz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15373,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions\/15373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}