{"id":31981,"date":"2020-11-23T00:37:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=31981"},"modified":"2020-11-23T00:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:37:26","slug":"youthful-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/11\/23\/youthful-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Youthful Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has different things to be thankful for, and some of those things stem from childhood.&nbsp; Last week, auteur <strong>Ryan Murphy <\/strong>revealed that his parents did not exactly embrace his homosexuality.&nbsp; \u201cI went to my junior prom and the next day my parents took me to a psychiatrist to cure me.&nbsp; Thankfully, I had a really good shrink, who at the end of our several sessions called my parents in and said, \u2018You have a choice here: You can try and change him and lose him, or you can accept him and love him.\u2019\u201d&nbsp; Ryan channeled that into his film adaptation of the Broadway musical <strong><em>The Prom<\/em><\/strong>, which hits <em>Netflix <\/em>on December 4<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Sexy <strong>Ryan Phillippe <\/strong>had a bad experience after making history as the first gay teenage character on a soap opera (<strong><em>One Life to Live<\/em><\/strong>).&nbsp; But he wasn\u2019t applauded by everyone.&nbsp; \u201cI mean, this was 1992, and I was playing a gay teenager and I was in a Christian school.&nbsp; They weren\u2019t happy about it.\u201d&nbsp; Reception at home wasn\u2019t much better.&nbsp; \u201cI thought my parents were going to disown me.\u201d&nbsp; I can\u2019t imagine what they thought of <strong><em>54<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has different things to be thankful for, and some of those things stem from childhood.&nbsp; Last week, auteur Ryan Murphy revealed that his parents did not exactly embrace his homosexuality.&nbsp; \u201cI went to my junior prom and the next day my parents took me to a psychiatrist to cure me.&nbsp; Thankfully, I had a<\/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-31981","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\/31981","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=31981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31990,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31981\/revisions\/31990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}