{"id":885,"date":"2015-04-13T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T07:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=885"},"modified":"2015-04-13T00:25:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T07:25:08","slug":"chad-allen-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/04\/13\/chad-allen-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Allen Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question comes from <strong>Teddy <\/strong>in Denver: <em>&#8220;I just heard that <strong>Chad Allen <\/strong>is retiring from showbiz.\u00a0 Is he still in showbiz?\u00a0 What has he been doing?\u00a0 And what is he going to do?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In many ways, Chad Allen is the fairy godfather of this column.\u00a0 Without going through the archives (at <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BillyMasters.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>), it seems to me he was one of the first actors we identified as gay.\u00a0 He was certainly one of the first celebrity penises we ever ran.\u00a0 In fact, when I first moved to Los Angeles, I believe he was bottoming across the hall from my apartment.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter, he was fucking a newbie on a soap (who is still on the soap).\u00a0 Needless to say, Allen has shown great range and versatility over the years (his last acting gig was being killed on <strong><em>Dexter<\/em><\/strong>).\u00a0 And now, having turned 40 (and looking better than ever), he&#8217;s making a change.\u00a0 For the past few years he&#8217;s been attending classes at <em>Santa Monica<\/em> <em>College<\/em>.\u00a0 He&#8217;s pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology and is hoping to teach and work in private practice.\u00a0 Towards that end, his website will be coming down in June.\u00a0 But he&#8217;ll live forever on\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BillyMasters.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Ask Billy question comes from Teddy in Denver: &#8220;I just heard that Chad Allen is retiring from showbiz.\u00a0 Is he still in showbiz?\u00a0 What has he been doing?\u00a0 And what is he going to do?&#8221; In many ways, Chad Allen is the fairy godfather of this column.\u00a0 Without going through the archives (at BillyMasters.com),<\/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-885","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\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}