{"id":140159,"date":"2015-08-21T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/21\/merindab-merindab-john-barrowman-the-making\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T07:42:38","slug":"merindab-merindab-john-barrowman-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/21\/merindab-merindab-john-barrowman-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-140159 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/21\/merindab-merindab-john-barrowman-the-making\/attachment\/140160\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_np6wyeftmR1rftii4o1_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/merindab.tumblr.com\/post\/120937974379\" target=\"_blank\">merindab<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/merindab.tumblr.com\/post\/120347943114\" target=\"_blank\">merindab<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>John Barrowman, <i>The Making of Me <\/i>(2008)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to try and explain why this really shook me, and I\u2019ll probably fail, but here goes: John\u2019s very secure in his sexuality. He\u2019s known he was gay since he was eight, and he grew up in a loving, supportive family. Yet he still fears that if he\u2019d stayed in a country where homosexuality was illegal for most of the first part of his life, that he wouldn\u2019t have survived.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why equal rights are so important.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is over 2k notes now. I just want to thank all of you for sharing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/okay-but\" target=\"_blank\">#okay but<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/understanding-this-can-be-the-difference-between-'tolerating'-gays-and-getting-on-board-with-gay-rights\" target=\"_blank\">#understanding this can be the difference between &lsquo;tolerating&rsquo; gays and getting on board with gay rights<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/i-mean-like-this-is-literally-how-i-changed-my-mind-and-became-a-good-person\" target=\"_blank\">#i mean like this is literally how i changed my mind and became a good person<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/i-realize-that-people-kill-themselves-over-this-shit\" target=\"_blank\">#i realize that people kill themselves over this shit<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/because-someone-blogged-about-it\" target=\"_blank\">#because someone blogged about it<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/normally-i-am-really-critical-of-social-justice-posts\" target=\"_blank\">#normally i am really critical of social justice posts<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/because-they're-just-sort-of\" target=\"_blank\">#because they&rsquo;re just sort of<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/'reblog-this-if-you-want-to-continue-doing-nothing-helpful-but-get-to-feel-like-some-kind-of-ally'\" target=\"_blank\">#&#8217;reblog this if you want to continue doing nothing helpful but get to feel like some kind of ally&rsquo;<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/but-it's-not-all-pointless\" target=\"_blank\">#but it&rsquo;s not all pointless<\/a>\u00a0(via <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mh33B14n-mpvd0p34dxx5TA\" target=\"_blank\">goes-pop<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>merindab: merindab: John Barrowman, The Making of Me (2008) I\u2019m going to try and explain why this really shook me, and I\u2019ll probably fail, but here goes: John\u2019s very secure in his sexuality. He\u2019s known he was gay since he was eight, and he grew up in a loving, supportive family. Yet he still fears &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/21\/merindab-merindab-john-barrowman-the-making\/\" 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":[11919,2971],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140159"}],"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=140159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140167,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140159\/revisions\/140167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}