{"id":1338,"date":"2015-09-28T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2015-09-28T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:12:07","slug":"pintauro-comes-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/pintauro-comes-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Pintauro Comes Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before we went to press, little <strong>Danny Pintauro <\/strong>made some revelations to <strong>Oprah Winfrey<\/strong>.\u00a0 First, he had been hooked on crystal meth.\u00a0 &#8220;I had just come out of a two-year relationship, and I discovered in that relationship that there was more I wanted to explore sexually.\u00a0 Crystal meth takes away your inhibitions, and if you want to explore that adventurous side, taking the drug is going to put you there.&#8221;\u00a0 What it also did was lead to his next revelation &#8211; he&#8217;s been HIV-positive for the past 12 years.\u00a0 &#8220;I know exactly when it happened.\u00a0 I was living in New York at the time and completely clueless to the idea that I was positive.\u00a0 I went in for a regular checkup.\u00a0 It was just regular blood work.\u00a0 You go in, and you sort of waited two weeks on pins and needles &#8211; or at least I did, because I was just terrified of the idea of getting HIV.&#8221;\u00a0 He says that the diagnosis was almost a relief.\u00a0 &#8220;You spend so much time terrified that you&#8217;re going to get it, and then you have it.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to be terrified anymore.&#8221;\u00a0 Let us hope young people everywhere are not following his example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before we went to press, little Danny Pintauro made some revelations to Oprah Winfrey.\u00a0 First, he had been hooked on crystal meth.\u00a0 &#8220;I had just come out of a two-year relationship, and I discovered in that relationship that there was more I wanted to explore sexually.\u00a0 Crystal meth takes away your inhibitions, and if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}