{"id":5249,"date":"2012-02-26T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2012-02-26T22:34:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:34:19","slug":"today-i-am-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5249","title":{"rendered":"Today I am a man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the one day a year I can prove that I&#8217;m not gay: I&#8217;m not watching the Academy Awards and I&#8217;m not attending an Academy Awards party. I suppose that could also mean that I&#8217;m gay and unpopular, but I&#8217;m not having that, either. The other day there was an LGBT soir\u00e9e next door to the gym and a friend who is &#8220;L&#8221; and I discussed whether the inclusiveness was proper there. I think it she told me LGBT wasn&#8217;t enough and the new proper term was LGBTQQ where the second &#8220;Q&#8221; stood for &#8220;questioning&#8221;. My question was who is doing the questioning; would it be me or is it the people around me?<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I&#8217;m still on track to gain 130 pounds and get a combover for my hobby. I spoke to five countries (US, Alaska &#8211; it counts separately for radio, Japan, Korea, and France) and two new states including one new rare state (South Dakota) this weekend. That&#8217;s 40 out of 50 states I&#8217;ve talked to.<\/p>\n<p>So what have we learned here? Most likely not gay and very, very dull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the one day a year I can prove that I&#8217;m not gay: I&#8217;m not watching the Academy Awards and I&#8217;m not attending an Academy Awards party. I suppose that could also mean that I&#8217;m gay and unpopular, but I&#8217;m not having that, either. The other day there was an LGBT soir\u00e9e next door to the gym and a friend who is &#8220;L&#8221; and I discussed whether the inclusiveness was proper there. I think it she told me LGBT wasn&#8217;t enough and the new proper term was LGBTQQ where the second &#8220;Q&#8221; stood for &#8220;questioning&#8221;. My question was who is doing the questioning; would it be me or is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today I am a man.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}