{"id":90766,"date":"2022-09-26T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90766"},"modified":"2022-09-26T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:12:14","slug":"lil-nas-x-the-wrong-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/09\/26\/lil-nas-x-the-wrong-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X &#038; the Wrong Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 20 years ago, I hosted <strong><em>Cape Cod Pride<\/em><\/strong>, and we had one lone protestor standing by the entrance with a picket sign.&nbsp; I felt so sorry for him, I offered him some food and drink from the stage \u2013 which he declined.&nbsp; I was reminded of this anecdote when I heard about <strong>Lil Nas X <\/strong>at <em>MGM<\/em> <em>Music Hall<\/em> in Boston.&nbsp; He, too, had some gay protestors outside.&nbsp; Before the show, he <em>Tweeted<\/em>, \u201cJust told my team to send them pizza, this is really good promo!\u201d&nbsp; He then added, \u201cUpdate: they didn\u2019t want the pizza but I accidentally fell in love with one of the homophobic protestors.\u201d&nbsp; The next day he wrote the following: \u201cCan\u2019t stop thinking about the cute homophobic guy that was protesting my concert last night.&nbsp; I just know we had a connection.&nbsp; I miss him so much man.&nbsp; I\u2019m nothing without him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I, too, have occasionally fallen for unobtainable guys.&nbsp; Take <strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong>.&nbsp; I\u2019ve never met him.&nbsp; I haven\u2019t even bumped into him at an event.&nbsp; And yet, I can\u2019t help but take news of him impregnating <strong>Blake Lively <\/strong>for the fourth (documented) time somewhat personally.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know why I consider this such an affront.&nbsp; But I\u2019m willing to blame it on those <em>Mint Mobile <\/em>commercials.&nbsp; Or it could be his body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 20 years ago, I hosted Cape Cod Pride, and we had one lone protestor standing by the entrance with a picket sign.&nbsp; I felt so sorry for him, I offered him some food and drink from the stage \u2013 which he declined.&nbsp; I was reminded of this anecdote when I heard about Lil Nas<\/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-90766","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\/90766","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=90766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90767,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90766\/revisions\/90767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}