{"id":50805,"date":"2022-03-07T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50805"},"modified":"2022-03-07T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T00:01:08","slug":"second-gent-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50805","title":{"rendered":"Second gent? Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/doug-emhoff.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50808\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/doug-emhoff-300x180.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/doug-emhoff-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/doug-emhoff-1024x614.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/doug-emhoff-768x461.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/doug-emhoff-1536x922.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/doug-emhoff-2048x1229.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Forgive my nitpicking. I can\u2019t help myself at times, so cut me some slack.<\/p>\n<p>Never before has the spouse of a president or vice president been a man. Until now. Doug Emhoff is married to Vice President Kamala Harris. OK, so why do the media keep referring to Emhoff as the \u201csecond gentleman\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>We have a first lady in the person of Jill Biden. Emhoff\u2019s marriage to the vice president, therefore, makes him the \u201cfirst gentleman.\u201d Isn\u2019t that right?<\/p>\n<p>If women occupied both the presidency and vice presidency and were married to men, then the husband of the VPOTUS would be the\u00a0<em>second gentleman<\/em>. Not now. Doug Emhoff, so far, is the\u00a0<em>only<\/em>\u00a0male American to have been thrust into the political limelight by virtue of his marriage to the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be more accurate, eh? Or perhaps I just am not understanding something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive my nitpicking. I can\u2019t help myself at times, so cut me some slack. Never before has the spouse of a president or vice president been a man. Until now. Doug Emhoff is married to Vice President Kamala Harris. OK, so why do the media keep referring to Emhoff as the \u201csecond gentleman\u201d? We have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second gent? Really?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9897,1744,2469,2505,8357],"class_list":["post-50805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-doug-emhoff","tag-first-lady","tag-jill-biden","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50809,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50805\/revisions\/50809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}