{"id":5315,"date":"2019-09-08T23:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T06:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2019-09-08T23:40:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T06:40:59","slug":"gays-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/08\/gays-in-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week,&nbsp;<strong>Ryan O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong>, an openly gay former member of the&nbsp;<strong><em>New England Patriots<\/em><\/strong>, released his memoir,&nbsp;<strong><em>My Life on the Line<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; One passage has drawn quite a bit of interest: \u201cI can promise you there\u2019s plenty of closeted&nbsp;<em>NFL&nbsp;<\/em>players.&nbsp; I think it\u2019s safe to say there\u2019s at least one on every team who is either gay or bisexual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A week before that book was released,&nbsp;<em>NFL&nbsp;<\/em>free agent&nbsp;<strong>Ryan Russell&nbsp;<\/strong>published an essay on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ESPN.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>ESPN.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; Here\u2019s the salient passage: \u201cToday, I have two goals: returning to the&nbsp;<em>NFL<\/em>, and living my life openly.&nbsp; I want to live my dream of playing the game I\u2019ve worked my whole life to play, and being open about the person I\u2019ve always been.\u201d&nbsp; Apparently that person isn\u2019t gay \u2013 he\u2019s bisexual.&nbsp; Let\u2019s check back in a few months and see how that\u2019s going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week,&nbsp;Ryan O\u2019Callaghan, an openly gay former member of the&nbsp;New England Patriots, released his memoir,&nbsp;My Life on the Line.&nbsp; One passage has drawn quite a bit of interest: \u201cI can promise you there\u2019s plenty of closeted&nbsp;NFL&nbsp;players.&nbsp; I think it\u2019s safe to say there\u2019s at least one on every team who is either gay or bisexual.\u201d<\/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-5315","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\/5315","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=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}