{"id":5656,"date":"2019-12-02T01:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T09:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2019-12-02T01:32:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T09:32:55","slug":"gay-couple-in-undies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/12\/02\/gay-couple-in-undies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Couple in Undies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn\u2019t be the holidays without at least one scandal.&nbsp; A conservative group claims that a gay underwear ad has \u201ccontaminated Christmas\u201d.&nbsp; So you know what I did?&nbsp; Found the ad &#8211; which, for the sake of clarity, I must tell you is a print ad.&nbsp; The company is <em>Bonds <\/em>underwear \u2013 oh, did I mention this is all happening in Australia?&nbsp; The ad features a real-life gay couple \u2013 Nicolas and Steve \u2013 kissing in the kitchen (one is sitting on a counter; one is leaning against it), clad solely in matching holiday boxer briefs.&nbsp; The caption says, \u201cIt\u2019s the little moments that make Christmas season so special\u201d.&nbsp; At least they didn\u2019t say \u201cIt\u2019s the little things\u201d \u2013 how embarrassing would that have been??&nbsp; Anyhoo, <em>FamilyVoice <\/em><em>Australia<\/em> thought this was too much.&nbsp; \u201cImages of two men kissing passionately while sporting only their Bonds underwear is hardly the appropriate message at any time of the year \u2013 particularly not at Christmas.&nbsp; Christmas is a special time that bonds faith and family.&nbsp; It should not be contaminated by businesses pushing explicit images into the marketplace,\u201d says the group\u2019s spokesperson.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know how passionate it was.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t see anything pop out, or get slid in \u2013 which happens at all the underwear parties I go to.&nbsp; But did you notice that the spokesperson says it\u2019s \u201ca special time that bonds faith and family\u201d?&nbsp; And it\u2019s Bonds underwear!&nbsp; Case closed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn\u2019t be the holidays without at least one scandal.&nbsp; A conservative group claims that a gay underwear ad has \u201ccontaminated Christmas\u201d.&nbsp; So you know what I did?&nbsp; Found the ad &#8211; which, for the sake of clarity, I must tell you is a print ad.&nbsp; The company is Bonds underwear \u2013 oh, did I<\/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-5656","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\/5656","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=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5657,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/5657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}