{"id":71632,"date":"2026-05-20T13:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/20\/barney-frank-liberal-icon-and-gay-rights-pioneer-dies-at-86-wgbh\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:54:29","slug":"barney-frank-liberal-icon-and-gay-rights-pioneer-dies-at-86-wgbh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/20\/barney-frank-liberal-icon-and-gay-rights-pioneer-dies-at-86-wgbh\/","title":{"rendered":"Barney Frank, liberal icon and gay-rights pioneer, dies at 86 &#8211; WGBH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxQQ3k2R3lUWkxLYnVLdWw2YjVHUnA2R3MyQlc4R25HMEY4LVZXRjdsekRCRVhHUmpTQjIxNUVWY0xfWEFnOXpCUXVNRkM0VEhNQVluREo0MHIxSXNObmc3S3Q1a1pTa21JRWJXTkVkVGJBa0FuZVlRc2tjMEx1Z183dEN2MjU2QkNCZWMzRVBFdzhfNWlfbVREM1R2WHYwdXpUZFppZDVfQTY?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Barney Frank, liberal icon and gay-rights pioneer, dies at 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">WGBH<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barney Frank, liberal icon and gay-rights pioneer, dies at 86&nbsp;&nbsp;WGBH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}