{"id":9023,"date":"2020-06-15T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T07:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2020-06-15T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T07:22:21","slug":"adam-rippon-for-okra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/adam-rippon-for-okra\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Rippon for Okra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The subject of trans people, minorities, and sports came together when <em>Olympic <\/em>skater <strong>Adam Rippon <\/strong>announced that he had donated to <strong><em>The Okra Project<\/em><\/strong>, a charity benefiting black transgender people.&nbsp; After news of his donation went public, another <em>Olympian <\/em>had something to say.&nbsp; In a now-deleted <em>Instagram <\/em>photo (which we have on our website), Russian skater <strong>Alexei Yagudin <\/strong>wrote, \u201cFuck, Adam.&nbsp; When will you die?&nbsp; Earth\u2019s mistake.\u201d&nbsp; Rippon, no stranger to criticism or hatred, responded, \u201cBecause of that I feel INSPIRED to donate another $1000 to the <strong><u>@TheOkraProject<\/u><\/strong> but this time, in his name.\u201d&nbsp; Perhaps the donation should have been made in rubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subject of trans people, minorities, and sports came together when Olympic skater Adam Rippon announced that he had donated to The Okra Project, a charity benefiting black transgender people.&nbsp; After news of his donation went public, another Olympian had something to say.&nbsp; In a now-deleted Instagram photo (which we have on our website), Russian<\/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-9023","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\/9023","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=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9024,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions\/9024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}