{"id":1332,"date":"2010-10-11T21:23:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2010-10-11T21:23:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T01:23:58","slug":"happy-coming-out-day-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/happy-coming-out-day-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Coming Out Day, People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino&#8217;s precious little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=130487561&amp;sc=fb&amp;cc=fp\">speech<\/a>? What a mensch&#8212;he just doesn&#8217;t want anyone &#8220;to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally successful or valid option&#8221; as heterosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>And apparently, his prepared text had a line which he omitted when he delivered it: \u201cThere is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s true! There IS nothing to be proud of in being a <em>dysfunctional<\/em> homosexual.<\/p>\n<p>But I know a hell of a lot of <em>functional<\/em> homosexuals, and I love &#8217;em! I&#8217;m proud of &#8217;em! They&#8217;re just wonderful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino&#8217;s precious little speech? What a mensch&#8212;he just doesn&#8217;t want anyone &#8220;to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally successful or valid option&#8221; as heterosexuality. Wow. And apparently, his prepared text had a line which he omitted when he delivered it: \u201cThere is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/happy-coming-out-day-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Coming Out Day, People<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}