{"id":1037,"date":"2005-07-06T02:54:53","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T17:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2005-07-12T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T10:48:57","slug":"coming-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/06\/coming-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calm down: not <em>my<\/em> coming-out.<\/p>\n<p>Beside, ever since these pictures of me, in my favorite electric blue vinyl pants and see-through mesh shirt, dancing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenferrato.com\/\">Ellen<\/a>&#8216;s set at <em>the Stud<\/em> have made it all over the internet, there&#8217;s scant little to Come Out of.<\/p>\n<p><!--private-->Indeed, loose morals and sexual deviance run rampant in the family, and my attention-whore of a little brother decided to up me one: he finally operated his carefully and anxiously planned <a href=\"http:\/\/triton.unknowngenius.com\/2005\/07\/03\/operation-tonnerre-de-brest\/\">official Coming Out<\/a> to both of our loving, yet expectedly old-school, parents. <\/p>\n<p>Even though we were both raised with open-mindedness and respect as core values of our education, this isn&#8217;t exactly an easy news to break to the people who are by now routinely asking him when they&#8217;ll get to meet &#8220;the lucky one&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So I thought I&#8217;d seize the occasion to congratulate him on his courage, on the important life choices and decisions he made, tell him that I am as proud of him as any big brother could ever be and wish him lots of happiness in love as in many other things.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and you may wonder why it happens that two brothers are blogging <a href=\"http:\/\/triton.unknowngenius.com\">in two different languages<\/a>? Well, it&#8217;s a long and complicated story, and I&#8217;ll spare the spoilers to the rare few out there who still haven&#8217;t <s>downloaded<\/s> seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/star_wars_3\/\">Episode 3<\/a> (hint: he is the one with the ridiculous Bavarian hairdo, I am the one who gets to blow things up).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calm down: not my coming-out. Beside, ever since these pictures of me, in my favorite electric blue vinyl pants and see-through mesh shirt, dancing to Ellen&#8216;s set at the Stud have made it all over the internet, there&#8217;s scant little to Come Out of. Indeed, loose morals and sexual deviance run rampant in the family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}