{"id":151993,"date":"2015-05-31T13:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T13:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/31\/john-barrowman-the-making-of-me-2008-im\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T03:16:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T03:16:29","slug":"john-barrowman-the-making-of-me-2008-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/31\/john-barrowman-the-making-of-me-2008-im\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-151993 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\/05\/31\/john-barrowman-the-making-of-me-2008-im\/attachment\/151994\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tumblr_np6wyeftmR1rftii4o1_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" 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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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 that if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/31\/john-barrowman-the-making-of-me-2008-im\/\" 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":[552,14720,17265,2084,6321,17264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151993"}],"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=151993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152001,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151993\/revisions\/152001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}