{"id":2156,"date":"2016-08-22T01:53:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T08:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2016-08-22T01:53:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T08:53:32","slug":"daleys-diving-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/daleys-diving-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Daley&#8217;s Diving Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I mentioned a gay British Olympian, I bet you all thought I was talking about <strong>Tom Daley<\/strong>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s because rumors flying out of Rio claim that the diver secretly married <em>fianc\u00e9 <\/em><strong>Dustin Lance Black<\/strong>.\u00a0 Those rumors started after DLB Tweeted: &#8220;3M Finals with <strong>Johnny Chaillot<\/strong>.\u00a0 Watch out #FootballWives, the #DivingHusbands are in the house.&#8221;\u00a0 A swift denial was issued by Daley&#8217;s mouthpiece &#8211; which I would have thought was DLB!<\/p>\n<p>Although <em>NBC <\/em>did not acknowledge <strong>Dustin Lance Black <\/strong>sitting with Daley&#8217;s mom during the synchronized diving at the beginning of the <em>Olympics<\/em>, they did point him out during the platform diving near the end of the fortnight.\u00a0 &#8220;For three <em>Olympics<\/em>, we&#8217;ve seen Tom Daley with <em>Team Daley<\/em>.\u00a0 His mom has been a constant presence.\u00a0 Now with his <em>fianc\u00e9<\/em>, who Tom refers to as Lance, Dustin Lance Black, <em>Academy Award<\/em>-winning screenwriter for the very powerful film <strong><em>Milk<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;.\u00a0 Who says social media (and <strong>Billy Masters<\/strong>) can&#8217;t change the world?\u00a0 Or a Streisand concert?\u00a0 Nonetheless, it was ultimately a disappointing time in Rio for Daley.\u00a0 He broke the <em>Olympic <\/em>record in the platform diving preliminaries, only to finish last in the semifinals the following day.\u00a0 He vows to come back in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I mentioned a gay British Olympian, I bet you all thought I was talking about Tom Daley.\u00a0 That&#8217;s because rumors flying out of Rio claim that the diver secretly married fianc\u00e9 Dustin Lance Black.\u00a0 Those rumors started after DLB Tweeted: &#8220;3M Finals with Johnny Chaillot.\u00a0 Watch out #FootballWives, the #DivingHusbands are in the house.&#8221;\u00a0<\/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-2156","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\/2156","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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}