{"id":808,"date":"2014-05-05T16:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2017-01-07T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T19:29:37","slug":"being-gay-is-stressful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Being Gay is Stressful.  Don&#8217;t Choose to be a Homosexual."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we&#8217;re 57 years old, Lynn just celebrated another birthday and he just had another visit with a doctor.  Life is tough if you&#8217;re gay.  Life is tough if you choose to live two lives one public and one private and try to juggle two sets of friends.  Life is tough if you live a normal open life and accept what comes.  But this constant stress wears at your soul.  I believe in science.  I understand that I need to change me mind when the facts change but basically I believe in facts.  From The Advocate comes this overview of recent science:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Quantifying-the-Effects-of-Homophobia-Advocate.com_.pdf\">Quantifying the Effects of Homophobia | Advocate.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we&#8217;re 57 years old, Lynn just celebrated another birthday and he just had another visit with a doctor. Life is tough if you&#8217;re gay. Life is tough if you choose to live two lives one public and one private &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/?p=808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-joly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}