{"id":2699,"date":"2017-04-10T00:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2017-04-10T00:37:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:37:42","slug":"why-was-manilow-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/why-was-manilow-scared\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Was Manilow Scared?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what I suppose is big entertainment news, <strong>Barry Manilow <\/strong>is gay.\u00a0 I always say people must come out at their own pace.\u00a0 And while this was not news to most of us, many of his diehard <em>Fanilows <\/em>were convinced otherwise.\u00a0 They were as sure of that as they were that <strong>Liberace <\/strong>simply never found the right girl &#8211; HE was the right girl!\u00a0 Turns out Barry had some real fear that if he admitted he were gay and tied the knot with his manager of the past four decades, some of his female fan base would be upset.\u00a0 &#8220;I thought I would be disappointing them if they knew I was gay.\u00a0 So I never did anything.&#8221;\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;m sure he did some things, but none that were publicized!\u00a0 He&#8217;s been pleasantly surprised by their reaction.\u00a0 &#8220;They were so happy.\u00a0 The reaction was so beautiful &#8211; strangers commenting, &#8216;Great for you!&#8217;\u00a0 I&#8217;m just so grateful for it.&#8221;\u00a0 All&#8217;s well that ends well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what I suppose is big entertainment news, Barry Manilow is gay.\u00a0 I always say people must come out at their own pace.\u00a0 And while this was not news to most of us, many of his diehard Fanilows were convinced otherwise.\u00a0 They were as sure of that as they were that Liberace simply never found<\/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-2699","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\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}