{"id":709,"date":"2015-02-09T00:44:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T08:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=709"},"modified":"2015-02-09T00:57:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T08:57:03","slug":"aaron-schocks-secret-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/02\/09\/aaron-schocks-secret-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Schock&#8217;s Secret Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We go from a story about a gay American asking a government official for help to a story about a government official who sure seems gay. This is not the first time we&#8217;ve talked about hunky congressman <strong>Aaron Schock<\/strong>. But this time, he&#8217;s not showing off his enviable physique or wearing a turquoise belt. He&#8217;s in the midst of an investigation regarding his recently redecorated office &#8211; because straight politicians are so often the target of decorating scandals. OK, so the suite bears a striking resemblance to the red room in <strong><em>Downton Abbey<\/em><\/strong>, but that&#8217;s beside the point. The big no-no is that interior decorator Annie Brahler did the work for free. What&#8217;s Schock&#8217;s defense? He rambled on and on about how he&#8217;s not an &#8220;old crusty white guy&#8221; and that he loves vibrant colors. He ended his diatribe by saying, &#8220;When I go take a personal vacation, I don&#8217;t sit on the beach. I go do active things. And so, I&#8217;m also not going to live in a cave. So when I post an Instagram photo with me with my friends, as <strong>Taylor Swift <\/strong>said, &#8216;haters are gonna hate.'&#8221; That may be the gayest defense since the trials of <strong>Oscar Wilde<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We go from a story about a gay American asking a government official for help to a story about a government official who sure seems gay. This is not the first time we&#8217;ve talked about hunky congressman Aaron Schock. But this time, he&#8217;s not showing off his enviable physique or wearing a turquoise belt. He&#8217;s<\/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-709","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\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}