{"id":247700,"date":"2013-11-01T01:50:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/01\/being-gay-is-not-a-plot-point-its-not-a-token\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T01:50:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T01:50:30","slug":"being-gay-is-not-a-plot-point-its-not-a-token","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/01\/being-gay-is-not-a-plot-point-its-not-a-token\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Being gay is not a plot point. It\u2019s not a token that you can say, \u201cLook, we have a gay character! Isn\u2019t that great? Aren\u2019t we awesome?\u201d It\u2019s part of a person and therefore it should be treated as such. It should be one facet of a character rather than the defining description of that character. And I hope that we have, through the writing and the performance of it, we have kind of struck that balance, where the audience learns something more about Cecil and Carlos both, not dependent on their sexuality, but in addition to their sexuality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Cecil Baldwin (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/itsacrimescene.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">itsacrimescene<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being gay is not a plot point. It\u2019s not a token that you can say, \u201cLook, we have a gay character! Isn\u2019t that great? Aren\u2019t we awesome?\u201d It\u2019s part of a person and therefore it should be treated as such. It should be one facet of a character rather than the defining description of that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/01\/being-gay-is-not-a-plot-point-its-not-a-token\/\" 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":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7963,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247700"}],"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=247700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}