{"id":6378,"date":"2012-09-03T20:56:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T01:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6378"},"modified":"2012-09-03T20:56:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T01:56:26","slug":"from-our-department-of-bitter-regrets-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6378","title":{"rendered":"From Our Department of Bitter Regrets&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mom&#8217;s tragedy was she liked bad boys. Dad being the specific case in point. Mine is I like good boys. Decent, honest, responsible. Problem was the good boys of my generation were almost universally terrified of telling their parents they&#8217;re gay. And should their parents have found out anyway and told them to pack themselves off to a therapist or a nice ex-gay ministry, they&#8217;d pack their bags and dutifully headed to the nearest one. <\/p>\n<p>Yes mother, yes father, I will put my heart and my soul and whatever fulfilled and contented love life I might have had, put them in this little coffin and bury it.  Because I am your good son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom&#8217;s tragedy was she liked bad boys. Dad being the specific case in point. Mine is I like good boys. Decent, honest, responsible. Problem was the good boys of my generation were almost universally terrified of telling their parents they&#8217;re gay. And should their parents have found out anyway and told them to pack themselves [&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":[130,12],"class_list":["post-6378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-lonelyache","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378","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=6378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}