{"id":53220,"date":"2019-06-22T20:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53220"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:05:49","slug":"coming-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/coming-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First I had to tell myself.<br \/>\nAlways the hardest part.<br \/>\n17 years spent ignoring and repressing.<\/p>\n<p>Then I had to tell my friends.<br \/>\nAll were happy for me.<br \/>\nThey were trying to be authentic too.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was time to tell my family.<br \/>\nMom took it well.<br \/>\nDad appeared to take it well.<\/p>\n<p>Flash-forward and now,<br \/>\nI don\u2019t speak to him.<br \/>\nThose meant to support you can\u2019t always handle it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First I had to tell myself. Always the hardest part. 17 years spent ignoring and repressing. Then I had to tell my friends. All were happy for me. They were trying to be authentic too. Then it was time to tell my family. Mom took&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53226,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53220\/revisions\/53226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}