{"id":269,"date":"2006-07-02T23:25:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/269"},"modified":"2006-07-02T23:25:03","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T04:25:03","slug":"episode-5-you-dont-think-hes-gay-do-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/269","title":{"rendered":"Episode 5 &#8211; You Don&#8217;t Think He&#8217;s Gay Do You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/acos\/episode_5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"285\" height=\"351\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/acos\/acos-5-sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click on the image to go directly to the new episode, or go to the main page of<em> A Coming Out Story<\/em>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucegarrett.com\/acos\/acos-main.htm\">Here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This one was intended mainly to introduce my circle of friends and add a little to the setting.&nbsp; I never intended for it to take so damn long to produce&#8230;I just kept hemming and hawing about how I wanted to do this one, which is a very repetative sequence of panels, and so I did other things and let it slide for far, far too long.&nbsp; If I want to finish this thing before I&#8217;m 100 I need to be a tad quicker at getting these out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This one is about a certain blind spot I had in my teen years, that drove some of my friends nuts.&nbsp; They kept waiting for me to grow up and &quot;get it&quot; and I kept wondering why they often looked at me like I was from another planet.&nbsp; Little did any of us really understand that I was growing up right on schedule, just on a slightly different course from theirs.&nbsp; Paradoxically, had I a better understanding of my own homosexuality, I might have had a better understanding of their heterosexuality, and how hormones were jerking them around too, in their way.&nbsp; And when a guy with a &#8216;C&#8217; average at best said he was going to go help one of the foxiest honor roll girls in the school with her homework, I might have been able to read between the lines a tad better then I usually did.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally&#8230; &nbsp; Click on the image to go directly to the new episode, or go to the main page of A Coming Out Story&#8230;Here.&nbsp; This one was intended mainly to introduce my circle of friends and add a little to the setting.&nbsp; I never intended for it to take so damn long to produce&#8230;I just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-coming-out-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}