{"id":8277,"date":"2015-04-10T09:06:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2015-04-10T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T14:06:58","slug":"how-to-laugh-until-you-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/8277","title":{"rendered":"How To Laugh Until You Cry&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend who&#8217;s been in the fight against ex-gay therapy with me since the Love In Action protests posted this Onion article to his Facebook page the other day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dead-straight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8278\" alt=\"dead straight\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dead-straight.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dead-straight.jpg 495w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/dead-straight-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&ldquo;We&#8217;ve found that a combination of group interventions, narrative therapy, and cognitive-behavioral approaches fully eliminates homosexual urges before the individual takes his or her own life,&rdquo; said program director Christian Weber, adding that many of their biggest success stories are even in stable, heterosexual relationships when they&#8217;re found lifeless in their own home or dredged from a nearby body of water.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Full Onion Article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/gay-conversion-therapists-claim-most-patients-full,38406\/\">Here<\/a>.  \u00a0You know the kind of laugh you get sometimes when it&#8217;s funny but painful at the same time&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend who&#8217;s been in the fight against ex-gay therapy with me since the Love In Action protests posted this Onion article to his Facebook page the other day&#8230; &ldquo;We&#8217;ve found that a combination of group interventions, narrative therapy, and cognitive-behavioral approaches fully eliminates homosexual urges before the individual takes his or her own life,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[30,28,12],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","tag-ex-gays","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277","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=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}