{"id":65533,"date":"2021-08-01T23:40:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=65533"},"modified":"2021-08-01T23:40:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:40:33","slug":"cozy-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/08\/01\/cozy-at-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Cozy at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cIf you are fortunate enough to be in a relationship with a supportive family,<br \/>\nin a country or place where living openly is pretty safe, I really would<br \/>\nrecommend it because it will only benefit you and your mental health.&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll probably perform better as well because you\u2019re not worried about it.\u201d <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">British <em>Olympian <\/em><strong>Tom Bosworth <\/strong>discusses the advantages of being openly gay at the <em>Games<\/em>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nI wish someone would discuss the advantages of being an openly gay single <em>Olympian.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With wall-to-wall coverage, I\u2019m coming across clips and highlights from the <em>Olympics <\/em>with alarming regularity.&nbsp; I was fascinated by the story of <strong>Fabio Fognini <\/strong>\u2013 an Italian tennis player.&nbsp; With every lost point, he\u2019d scream \u201c<em>frocio<\/em>\u201d.&nbsp; As someone who typically summers under the Tuscan sun, I recognized the polite term for \u201cfaggot\u201d (I\u2019m sure someone out there thinks I should say \u201cthe F-word\u201d, but fuck that).&nbsp; After losing the game, Fabio explained the situation on social media.&nbsp; \u201cThe heat went to my head.&nbsp; Obviously I didn\u2019t want to offend anyone\u2019s sensibilities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Daley <\/strong>can finally tick \u201cwin an <em>Olympic <\/em>gold medal\u201d off his \u201cTo Do\u201d list.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure he\u2019d rather win it solo than as part of a syncro duo, but there\u2019s another week to go.&nbsp; How did he celebrate?&nbsp; \u201cIf you\u2019ve been following me for a while, you\u2019ll know I\u2019m a bit knitting obsessed.&nbsp; And I kept banging my medal, so what I decided to do was make a little case for my medal.&nbsp; Now my medal is not going to get scratched.\u201d&nbsp; Not only is he a gold medal winner, he\u2019s also invented the knitted <em>Olympic <\/em>medal cozy.&nbsp; Take that, all of you who think <strong>Dustin Lance Black <\/strong>is old one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you are fortunate enough to be in a relationship with a supportive family, in a country or place where living openly is pretty safe, I really would recommend it because it will only benefit you and your mental health.&nbsp; You\u2019ll probably perform better as well because you\u2019re not worried about it.\u201d &nbsp; \u2013 British<\/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-65533","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\/65533","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=65533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65542,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65533\/revisions\/65542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}