{"id":2766,"date":"2017-05-08T04:13:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2017-05-08T04:13:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:13:26","slug":"gay-rugby-player-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/05\/08\/gay-rugby-player-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Rugby Player Engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The path to true love never doth runneth smoothly&#8230;or words to that effect.\u00a0 <strong>Sam Stanley <\/strong>was the first British rugby player to come out as gay way back in 2015.\u00a0 Although he is now retired from the game, he&#8217;s still making headlines.\u00a0 Last week, the announcement of his engagement to his partner of seven years, <strong>Laurence Hicks<\/strong>, was met with many snarky comments from people online.\u00a0 The UK magazine <em>Attitude<\/em> claims that much of the criticism was based on the couple&#8217;s 25+ year age difference.\u00a0 Stanley&#8217;s <em>Instagram <\/em>post probably didn&#8217;t help as he referred to Hicks as &#8220;my pretend godfather, uncle, cousin, and many others in order to make sure no one found out about us and that we were a couple.&#8221;\u00a0 Sam also revealed that he&#8217;s into older men and found Hicks on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.SilverDaddies.com\" target=\"filth\">SilverDaddies.com<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Aside from the age difference, I was quite surprised when I saw the beach photos of them which I&#8217;ll post on on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The path to true love never doth runneth smoothly&#8230;or words to that effect.\u00a0 Sam Stanley was the first British rugby player to come out as gay way back in 2015.\u00a0 Although he is now retired from the game, he&#8217;s still making headlines.\u00a0 Last week, the announcement of his engagement to his partner of seven years,<\/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-2766","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\/2766","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=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}