{"id":16796,"date":"2015-09-01T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/should-humans-be-able-to-marry-robots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:32","slug":"should-humans-be-able-to-marry-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/should-humans-be-able-to-marry-robots","title":{"rendered":"Should humans be able to marry robots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-humans-be-able-to-marry-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh great, now republicans can start bitching about same sex robotic marriage! lol! At least it\u2019ll give them something to do after they are booted out of office.<\/p>\n<p>I always try to look on the bright side. <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-wink\" title=\";-)\">wink<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b>(credit: AMC)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s recent 5\u20134 decision in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/14pdf\/14-556_3204.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em><\/a> legalizing same-sex marriage raises the interesting question: what\u2019s next on the \u201cslippery slope\u201d? Robot-human marriages? Robot-robot marriages?<\/p>\n<p>Why yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2015\/08\/humans_should_be_able_to_marry_robots.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">predicts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.gary_marchant.html\" rel=\"author\">Gary Marchant<\/a> on <em>Slate<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/should-humans-be-able-to-marry-robots\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh great, now republicans can start bitching about same sex robotic marriage! lol! At least it\u2019ll give them something to do after they are booted out of office. I always try to look on the bright side. wink (credit: AMC) The Supreme Court\u2019s recent 5\u20134 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage raises the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69648,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796\/revisions\/69648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}