{"id":2596,"date":"2012-02-15T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2012-02-15T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T09:46:44","slug":"coming-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Magda Szubanski for &#8216;coming out&#8217; but I still can&#8217;t believe we have to talk about this in the 21st century. That people who are gay, lesbian, bi and\/or transgendered feel the need to &#8216;come out&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying they should remain stealth. What I&#8217;m saying is that I can&#8217;t believe people still have a hang up about sexual orientation. And it&#8217;s all so skewed. No one feels the pressure to come out as heterosexual because <strong>that<\/strong> is deemed &#8216;the norm&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But being in love with someone is &#8216;the norm&#8217;! Being human and loving and desiring other people is normal. Anyone who is in a loving relationship who is gay, lesbian, bi, transgenered, or even asexual is NORMAL! Humans love, who they love is NOT important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Magda Szubanski for &#8216;coming out&#8217; but I still can&#8217;t believe we have to talk about this in the 21st century. That people who are gay, lesbian, bi and\/or transgendered feel the need to &#8216;come out&#8217;. I&#8217;m not saying they should remain stealth. What I&#8217;m saying is that I can&#8217;t believe people still have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=2596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coming Out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}