{"id":3848,"date":"2018-04-29T22:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T05:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2018-04-29T22:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T05:34:01","slug":"have-a-fag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/04\/29\/have-a-fag\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Fag!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCan I bum a fag?\u201d&nbsp; I\u2019ve had my share of propositions, but this seemed more forward than most.&nbsp; Not that I minded \u2013 I had just gotten off a transatlantic flight and never once employed the word \u201cOcupado\u201d.&nbsp; I was overdue.&nbsp; Turns out, the gent simply wanted a cigarette.&nbsp; Well, excuse me for hearing the words \u201cbum\u201d and \u201cfag\u201d and conjuring up a sexual image.&nbsp; That got me thinking \u2013 in these days of rampant political correctness, should I be offended that the Brits call cigarettes \u201cfags\u201d?&nbsp; Typically, hearing the word \u201cfag\u201d might elicit at least a raised eyebrow \u2013 much as&nbsp;<strong>Miss Vivien Leigh&nbsp;<\/strong>did in&nbsp;<strong><em>Gone with the Wind<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(a faggy reference if ever there was one).&nbsp; However, since the word in this context had nothing to do with gay people, I wouldn\u2019t blink if he screamed it in Leicester Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCan I bum a fag?\u201d&nbsp; I\u2019ve had my share of propositions, but this seemed more forward than most.&nbsp; Not that I minded \u2013 I had just gotten off a transatlantic flight and never once employed the word \u201cOcupado\u201d.&nbsp; I was overdue.&nbsp; Turns out, the gent simply wanted a cigarette.&nbsp; Well, excuse me for hearing the<\/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-3848","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\/3848","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=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}