{"id":243670,"date":"2013-11-19T15:43:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/19\/thehindensushi-cryingalonewithfrankenstein\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T16:46:19","slug":"thehindensushi-cryingalonewithfrankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/19\/thehindensushi-cryingalonewithfrankenstein\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-243670 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\/2013\/11\/19\/thehindensushi-cryingalonewithfrankenstein\/attachment\/243671\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvyxt202Ng1qbbaybo1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvyxt202Ng1qbbaybo1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvyxt202Ng1qbbaybo1_500-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thehindensushi.tumblr.com\/post\/66732657797\/cryingalonewithfrankenstein-this-photo-always\" target=\"_blank\">thehindensushi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cryingalonewithfrankenstein.tumblr.com\/post\/66412122367\/this-photo-always-cheers-me-up-a-bit-its-a\" target=\"_blank\">cryingalonewithfrankenstein<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This photo always cheers me up a bit. It\u2019s a front-page article from 1955 about Christine Jorgensen, one of the first women to have sex-reassignment surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Since the text is a bit small and I couldn\u2019t find a larger copy, here\u2019s what the small blurb says:<\/p>\n<p>A World of a Difference<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>George W. Jorgensen, Jr., son of a Bronx carpenter, served in the Army for two years and was given honorable discharge in 1946. Now George is no more. After six operations, Jorgensen\u2019s sex has been changed and today she is a striking woman, working as a photographer in Denmark. Parents were informed of the big change in a letter Christine (that\u2019s her new name) sent to them recently.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This article is 58 years old, and it\u2019s more respectful of Christine\u2019s pronoun choices and name than some publications are today. It makes me happy to see a newspaper be respectful of a trans person\u2019s choice of name and pronouns like that :3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>liberal journalism: shittier to trans women today than it was in 1955<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thehindensushi: cryingalonewithfrankenstein: This photo always cheers me up a bit. It\u2019s a front-page article from 1955 about Christine Jorgensen, one of the first women to have sex-reassignment surgery. Since the text is a bit small and I couldn\u2019t find a larger copy, here\u2019s what the small blurb says: A World of a Difference George W. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/19\/thehindensushi-cryingalonewithfrankenstein\/\" 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":[585,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243670"}],"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=243670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243672,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243670\/revisions\/243672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}