{"id":6648,"date":"2012-11-22T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2012-11-22T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T20:05:17","slug":"naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6648","title":{"rendered":"Naked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Facebook stream just now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/naked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6649\" title=\"naked\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/naked-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/naked-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/naked-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/naked.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Which is probably why some gay men of my generation stick to casual sex&#8230;why the advice I constantly, reliably get from gay friends of my generation and older, about my chronic loneliness is to just go out and get laid. \u00a0 It&#8217;s the cure that&#8217;s worked for them for so much of their own lives. \u00a0 But for some of us that would only make it worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can work your way past shame and self loathing. \u00a0 Getting yourself to a place where you can trust another person&#8230;intimately&#8230;after so many years right when you&#8217;re so very young, being emotionally battered and bruised by your own family&#8230;your own parents&#8230;friends&#8230;that&#8217;s a lot harder. \u00a0 Nearly impossible for some. \u00a0 For some gay folk of my generation, it will always be a time before Stonewall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Facebook stream just now&#8230; Which is probably why some gay men of my generation stick to casual sex&#8230;why the advice I constantly, reliably get from gay friends of my generation and older, about my chronic loneliness is to just go out and get laid. \u00a0 It&#8217;s the cure that&#8217;s worked for [&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":[130,77,12],"class_list":["post-6648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-lonelyache","tag-the-dumpsville-chronicles","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648","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=6648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}