{"id":8558,"date":"2015-10-10T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2015-10-10T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T21:34:43","slug":"a-coming-out-story-episode-19-what-i-learned-about-homosexuality-part-3-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/8558","title":{"rendered":"A Coming Out Story &#8211; Episode 19 &#8211; What I Learned About Homosexuality (Part 3) &#8220;Aftermath&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! \u00a0 Finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/episode_19.htm\">A Coming Out Story Episode 19<\/a> is posted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/acos-19-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8559\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/acos-19-sm.png\" alt=\"acos-19-sm\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/acos-19-sm.png 300w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/acos-19-sm-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;wherein our hero discovers his inner strength. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/episode_19.htm\">And his inner prison.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hadn&#8217;t initially thought of dividing this story into sections, but it&#8217;s a work in progress and now that I&#8217;ve finished this little three part story arc about why I&#8217;m so bottled up inside when I should be asking this beautiful sexy classmate out on a date, I see that it puts exactly the right closure to everything that came before it. So I&#8217;m calling this End Of Part 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Part 2 begins soon (I hope!), and we shall see how this gay kid and the object of his affections manage to deal with their angsty adolescent hormones in a world that would as soon push them off a bridge than give them role models, support and maybe even a prom to go to. This is 1971\/72 we&#8217;re talking about here. I try to explain what that means in the first strip of this episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I apologize for the excessive delay in getting this one out. But I had to pull some stuff out of my guts I never did before. \u00a0 Plus&#8230;everything I said a few posts ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! \u00a0 Finally&#8230; A Coming Out Story Episode 19 is posted&#8230; &#8230;wherein our hero discovers his inner strength. \u00a0 And his inner prison. I hadn&#8217;t initially thought of dividing this story into sections, but it&#8217;s a work in progress and now that I&#8217;ve finished this little three part story arc about why I&#8217;m so bottled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[25,145,14,12],"class_list":["post-8558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoon","category-life","tag-a-coming-out-story","tag-a-life","tag-gay-youth","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","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=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}