{"id":102156,"date":"2016-05-06T23:27:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T23:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/06\/thingsamylikes-vintagemarlene-liberace\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T08:00:49","slug":"thingsamylikes-vintagemarlene-liberace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/06\/thingsamylikes-vintagemarlene-liberace\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-102156 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/06\/thingsamylikes-vintagemarlene-liberace\/attachment\/102157\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ipnysbDO1qinw11o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ipnysbDO1qinw11o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ipnysbDO1qinw11o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thingsamylikes.tumblr.com\/post\/143872796253\" target=\"_blank\">thingsamylikes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/vintagemarlene.tumblr.com\/post\/143704335969\" target=\"_blank\">vintagemarlene<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>liberace sports his famous ring collection, circa 1970 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.incolors.club\" target=\"_blank\">www.incolors.club<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I DIG Liberace, I really do.<br \/>Not the campy over the top part, although the kitschy part is awesome, don\u2019t get me wrong. <br \/>He lived in a time when, if a gay man became the object of OVERWHELMING, yet oblivious female adoration, coming out was unthinkable. Yet he STILL made it work.<br \/>He was the most \u2018hide in plain sight\u2019 gay entertainer ever, as well as being a really VERY skilled pianist who genuinely believed in putting on a great show for people. <\/p>\n<p>Women responded to him because he was NICE and and an engaging entertainer and didn\u2019t make female fans feel threatened or alienated. <br \/>If his adoring fans ensured he got his tv specials and sold out shows even though his homosexuality was the worst-kept industry secret ever, so be it. <br \/>Those mink capes and rings don\u2019t pay for themselves!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thingsamylikes: vintagemarlene: liberace sports his famous ring collection, circa 1970 (www.incolors.club) I DIG Liberace, I really do.Not the campy over the top part, although the kitschy part is awesome, don\u2019t get me wrong. He lived in a time when, if a gay man became the object of OVERWHELMING, yet oblivious female adoration, coming out was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/06\/thingsamylikes-vintagemarlene-liberace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12683,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102158,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102156\/revisions\/102158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}