{"id":10577,"date":"2020-02-16T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=10577"},"modified":"2020-02-16T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T18:17:04","slug":"a-coming-out-story-intermission-2-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/10577","title":{"rendered":"A Coming Out Story&#8230;Intermission 2&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with the Intermission, wherein I&#8217;ve sought answers about my sexual orientation in the bookstore, and purchased Doctor Pompous J. Fraudquack&#8217;s <em>The TRUTH About Homosexuality<\/em>&#8230;and I begin to read&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/intermission_2_continued-2.htm\">Intermission &#8211; What I Learned About Homosexuality. . . And Myself (Part 2)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to interleave this little story arc with the one I&#8217;m currently presenting, so if it gets a tad confusing blame my poorly developed storytelling skills. But this is where it&#8217;s all been building to. The subtitle of the cartoon is after all, <em>The first person you come out to, is yourself.<\/em> For some gay kids that isn&#8217;t easy, and it especially was not back in 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with the Intermission, wherein I&#8217;ve sought answers about my sexual orientation in the bookstore, and purchased Doctor Pompous J. Fraudquack&#8217;s The TRUTH About Homosexuality&#8230;and I begin to read&#8230; Intermission &#8211; What I Learned About Homosexuality. . . And Myself (Part 2) I&#8217;m going to interleave this little story arc with the one I&#8217;m currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,190,12],"class_list":["post-10577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-coming-out-story","tag-the-gay-kid-chronicles","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}