{"id":2546,"date":"2017-01-30T03:46:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2017-01-30T03:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:46:53","slug":"does-this-look-like-a-break-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/01\/30\/does-this-look-like-a-break-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Does this look like a break to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This leads to a rare mid-column Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question.\u00a0 Last week, we revealed that Tom Daley <\/strong>was involved in some sort of cybersex with a 23-year-old lad from Liverpool while he was on a “break” with Dustin Lance Black <\/strong>– how very Friends<\/em><\/strong> of them.\u00a0 This news – to say nothing of video of Daley leaked to BillyMasters.com<\/span><\/strong> – prompted quite a number of e-mails.\u00a0 The most striking one was from Josh <\/strong>out there somewhere in Cyberspace: “While they were supposedly on a break, we were bombarded by images of how happily in love they were – including the cover of <\/em>Out magazine.\u00a0 How can we believe anything about their relationship now?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Josh, Josh, Josh – do you know who you can believe?\u00a0 Nobody.\u00a0 Well, nobody except for me.\u00a0 And you should even be skeptical of me.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because everyone has an agenda.\u00a0 Neither Daley nor Black wants to solely be judged on their skills and abilities.\u00a0 They aren’t quietly living a blissful, idyllic life.\u00a0 They’re marketing their perfect relationship to further their brands and products.\u00a0 That’s not to say they aren’t happy – they very well could be.\u00a0 But, as with an earlier story, the more one feels the need to prove something, the less inclined I am to believe it.<\/p>\n

By the way, Dustin Lance Black is writing a memoir.\u00a0 Mama’s Boy: The Story of Two Americas<\/em><\/strong> recounts the relationship of DLB (the aforementioned “mama’s boy”) and his devoutly religious Southern mom.\u00a0 “My progressive friends along the coasts often marveled at how close I remained with my conservative, southern, Mormon, military mom.\u00a0 What they didn’t know is how much I still cherish my roots, and that I’m often more comfortable at a BBQ in Texarkana, Texas than a pool party in Hollywood.”\u00a0 I’ll be the judge of that.returning to Broadway<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This leads to a rare mid-column Ask Billy question.\u00a0 Last week, we revealed that Tom Daley was involved in some sort of cybersex with a 23-year-old lad from Liverpool while he was on a “break” with Dustin Lance Black – how very Friends of them.\u00a0 This news – to say nothing of video of Daley<\/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-2546","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\/2546","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=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}