{"id":15584,"date":"2017-01-05T19:36:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=15584"},"modified":"2017-01-05T19:36:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:36:22","slug":"calling-on-john-wayne-to-confront-a-bigot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/01\/calling-on-john-wayne-to-confront-a-bigot\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling on John Wayne to confront a bigot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard alignleft wp-image-15585 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Guardian.png\" alt=\"the-guardian\" width=\"336\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a>Molly Priddy, a reporter for the <a href=\"http:\/\/flatheadbeacon.com\/\">Flathead Beacon<\/a> who did an internship at the Billings Gazette when I still worked there, recently summoned her\u00a0inner cowboy to stand up to a homophobic man at a Whitefish restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/jan\/05\/montana-lgbt-equality-experience-defend-rights\">in The Guardian<\/a>, Priddy tells of how she and her wife, out to dinner with two other women who had just gotten engaged, overheard the anti-gay mutterings of the man at the next table. At first she wasn&#8217;t sure how to respond.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But within seconds, I settled on the answer I already knew I would, the one I\u2019d learned from my Montana upbringing: I was going to stand up to this guy.<\/p>\n<p>Framed in the blush of my face, my eyes caught his.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs there a problem?\u201d I asked, hoping he didn\u2019t hear the slight tremor in my voice.<\/p>\n<p>This was my renegade cowboy moment, the one I\u2019d been preparing for my whole life watching men like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood chew on cigarillos, sneer at obstacles, and then grunt one-liners about them as they rode away, alone and victorious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I won&#8217;t steal any more of her thunder. Just go ahead and read the whole thing yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Priddy, a reporter for the Flathead Beacon who did an internship at the Billings Gazette when I still worked there, recently summoned her\u00a0inner cowboy to stand up to a homophobic man at a Whitefish restaurant. Writing in The Guardian, Priddy tells of how she and her wife, out to dinner with two other women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4064,5336,5335,5241],"class_list":["post-15584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-flathead-beacon","tag-molly-priddy","tag-the-guardian","tag-whitefish","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}