{"id":263,"date":"2004-07-02T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2004-07-02T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T12:54:47","slug":"my_first_lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"My First Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos7.flickr.com\/11974203_6e5540425b.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" alt=\"Lobby4\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI went to my first lobby, and what&#8217;s more, it was a gay &#038; lesbian rights lobby! Lobbies are practically non-existent in Singapore, so when Monkey asked me if I would like to join him and his friends at Town Hall on Saturday for the lobby, I decided to tag along to have a look.<br \/>\nFrom what Monkey and his friends said, that probably wasn&#8217;t the most inspiring or most boisterous of lobbies and the speakers didn&#8217;t seemed fired up enough. They were lobbying against John Howard&#8217;s amendment of the Marriage Act in Australia and how he&#8217;s using the rights of gays &#038; lesbians as his electoral agenda. Anyhow, that&#8217;s about what I gathered from what I heard.<br \/>\nIt would probably be a million years before the likes of such lobbies happens in Singapore. Any such attempt would probably result in the police coming after you!<br \/>\nAfter the lobby, I had yumcha with Monkey and two of his friends &#8211; His Majesty &#038; The Metrosexual whom Monkey regularly mentions on his blog. They&#8217;re such lovely people and I&#8217;m glad to have met them.<br \/>\nWith that lobby and the meetings with Monkey&#8217;s many friends, I think I&#8217;m now qualified to be inducted into the Fagnet Hall of Fame. I want a star on Oxford Street!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to my first lobby, and what&#8217;s more, it was a gay &#038; lesbian rights lobby! Lobbies are practically non-existent in Singapore, so when Monkey asked me if I would like to join him and his friends at Town &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}