{"id":2447,"date":"2008-12-09T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T02:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2008-12-09T21:02:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T02:02:41","slug":"episode-11-of-a-coming-out-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/2447","title":{"rendered":"Episode 11 Of A Coming Out Story&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;In which our teenage hero discovers that the parts that make up a brain aren&#8217;t necessarily on speaking terms with each other.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/episode_11.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"322\" height=\"351\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/acos\/acos_episode_11-sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click on the image above to go directly to the new episode&#8230;or <a href=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/acos-main.htm\">Here<\/a>  to go to the series main page.&nbsp; I did a little review of the panels I put up over the weekend and yesterday, made a few minor corrections, and started sending out the email notices.&nbsp; If you didn&#8217;t get one and want to be put on the mail list let me know.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">If you checked in yesterday or Sunday you should know that I shuffled the upcoming episodes around a tad and there is a different one now listed as coming next.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll do the one on how I got my camera bug later&#8230;it doesn&#8217;t really fit at this stage of the story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The series divides into three parts really.&nbsp; The first part is the one I&#8217;m still on right now, which is about how all these sexual feelings just suddenly seemed to start happening to me out of the blue and I started getting all twitterpated over one of my male classmates and all of a sudden I was just flailing around with all these really strong new feelings I was absolutely not prepared for, didn&#8217;t understand, and didn&#8217;t really want.&nbsp; The second is how I stumbled around trying to avoid having to deal with the realization that I was really sexually attracted to guys, and that I was actually falling in love with this one particular guy.&nbsp; And finally, how I finally came to terms with both of those things and how I moved from confusion and denial into self awareness and pride.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I have about 70 percent of all this scripted, but obviously I&#8217;m still working on it as I go along.&nbsp; For one thing, I added a bunch of material to this episode after I started working on the pencils and wasn&#8217;t really satisfied with it.&nbsp; But I really need to kick up the output here a tad&#8230;or I&#8217;ll still be working on this when I&#8217;m 90.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;In which our teenage hero discovers that the parts that make up a brain aren&#8217;t necessarily on speaking terms with each other. &nbsp; Click on the image above to go directly to the new episode&#8230;or Here to go to the series main page.&nbsp; I did a little review of the panels I put up over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[25,52],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-a-coming-out-story","tag-cartooning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}