{"id":435,"date":"2008-07-07T17:31:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T22:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2008-07-07T17:31:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T22:31:52","slug":"a-little-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"A Little Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Innocents-Erasure\/dp\/B000002LEI\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1215468551&amp;sr=8-5\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why they are doing it that way. That is just so messed up. That&#8217;s just gay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That statement\u00a0may seem innocuous to some people, but it bothers me, especially when I have to hear it repeatedly. The statement says the &#8220;gay&#8221; is synonymous with screwed up, wrong, and bad. Remember when gay was another word for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/West-Side-Story\/dp\/B00023GGK8\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1215469841&amp;sr=8-3\">happy<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Now, think about what people who would make that opening statement think about gays. I think about it. And I don&#8217;t think they hold much, if any, respect for them. And since I am gay, I don&#8217;t think they hold much respect for me. And they don&#8217;t know me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why they are doing it that way. That is just so messed up. That&#8217;s just gay.&#8221; That statement\u00a0may seem innocuous to some people, but it bothers me, especially when I have to hear it repeatedly. The statement says the &#8220;gay&#8221; is synonymous with screwed up, wrong, and bad. Remember when gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}