{"id":1035,"date":"2010-06-03T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2014-02-14T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T21:33:10","slug":"utah-pride-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/utah-pride-2010","title":{"rendered":"Utah Pride 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1042\" href=\"http:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/beh_web161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1042\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/beh_web161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/beh_web161.jpg 550w, https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/beh_web161-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/utahpridecenter.org\/utahpride\/\">Pride festival<\/a> is this weekend and those who count themselves among the gay, or the gay friendly are getting excited.\u00a0 The tents and fencing around the City\/County building festival grounds started going up a few days ago and friends are already making plans to celebrate.\u00a0 Its been nothing but Pride weekend event advertising on Facebook for the last 2 weeks and the local a(A)lternative press have been running ads for all sorts of ancillary parties, club nights and events for a month.\u00a0 And while there are many unofficial events, the festival proper has a deep schedule of things to <a href=\"http:\/\/utahpridecenter.org\/utahpride\/2010-pride-schedule-and-entertainment\/pride-schedule\">see and do<\/a> throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard from some people that the Salt Lake Pride is one of the biggest in the country.\u00a0 Having never been to one outside of the state of Utah I wouldn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 What I do know is that we have an amazing gay community in this city, and one that has been reflected here at XMission stretching back nearly to the dawn of the company in 1993.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to thank Pete Ashdown for cultivating such an accepting and diverse workplace at XMission (a &#8216;proud&#8217; sponsor of Pride!), and I&#8217;d like to thank my gay coworkers and friends &#8211; Harley, Roger, Matt, Jeff, Chris and Mikey especially &#8211; for making Salt Lake City a much more vibrant place to work and live!\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pride festival is this weekend and those who count themselves among the gay, or the gay friendly are getting excited.\u00a0 The tents and fencing around the City\/County building festival grounds started going up a few days ago and friends are already making plans to celebrate.\u00a0 Its been nothing but Pride weekend event advertising on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,133,47],"tags":[347,229,323,311],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivals","category-local","category-public-events","tag-pride","tag-salt-lake-city","tag-summer-festivals","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}