{"id":20115,"date":"2013-08-15T23:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T03:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20115"},"modified":"2013-08-15T23:13:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T03:13:29","slug":"wrestler-shocks-interviewer-by-announcing-hes-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wrestler-shocks-interviewer-by-announcing-hes-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestler shocks interviewer by announcing he&#8217;s gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2394857\/Professional-wrestler-shocks-interviewer-casually-announcing-hes-GAY--hes-WWE-star-come-out.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A WWE wrestler shocked his interviewer by casually declaring that he&#8217;s gay &#8211; and then added, &#8216;to be honest, I don&#8217;t think it matters.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Darren Young, real name Fred Rosser, is thought to be the first major professional wrestler to come out while still active in the ring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m shocked, too. I thought <i>all <\/i>WWE wrestlers were gay; I was waiting for one of them to come out as straight. Sweaty men grappling with sweaty men, the posturing, playacting and overdone bravura \u2013 it seemed fairly obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A WWE wrestler shocked his interviewer by casually declaring that he&#8217;s gay &#8211; and then added, &#8216;to be honest, I don&#8217;t think it matters.&#8217; Darren Young, real name Fred Rosser, is thought to be the first major professional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wrestler-shocks-interviewer-by-announcing-hes-gay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[2167,1679],"class_list":["post-20115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-homosexuality","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}