{"id":2816,"date":"2024-06-19T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2024-06-19T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:41:06","slug":"tellem-im-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/?p=2816","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tell&#8217;em I&#8217;m gay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen back,<\/p>\n<p>on a phone call,<\/p>\n<p>Listening to their\u00a0breath,<\/p>\n<p>rise and fall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sound of female fluttering,<\/p>\n<p>flumoxing and flailing so.<\/p>\n<p>Someone was sharing something,<\/p>\n<p>I was too removed to know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it sounded like a sister,<\/p>\n<p>with a concern only they would know.<\/p>\n<p>But when I heard the answer,<\/p>\n<p>I laughed like they now know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It shook me to my core.<\/p>\n<p>with that single comment.<\/p>\n<p>It never left my brain,<\/p>\n<p>t&#8217;was the content context laughter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What to say?<\/p>\n<p>How to respond?<\/p>\n<p>I was dumbfounded,<\/p>\n<p>no word was found.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen back, on a phone call, Listening to their\u00a0breath, rise and fall. &nbsp; The sound of female fluttering, flumoxing and flailing so. Someone was sharing something, I was too removed to know. &nbsp; But it sounded like a sister, with a concern only they would know. But when I heard the answer, I laughed like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cost.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}