{"id":90775,"date":"2022-10-02T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T00:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90775"},"modified":"2022-10-02T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T00:28:34","slug":"shut-off-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/10\/02\/shut-off-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut Off Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been a curious development in the life of <em>Oscar <\/em>winner <strong>Dustin Lance Black<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cA month ago I sustained a serious head injury that put me out of commission.&nbsp; Showing little improvement, my doctors ordered me to shut off my brain in hopes of it healing.\u201d&nbsp; This sounds scary, and certainly our thoughts are with him.&nbsp; To assist in his recovery, hubby <strong>Tom Daley <\/strong>took the family to a Greek Island \u2013 presumably not the same one I just returned from.&nbsp; I recalled the last time Lance graced this column, which was after a bar fight on August 17<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; He and Tom were out at <em>Freedom <\/em>in Soho with female promoter, <strong>Teddy Edwardes<\/strong>, when Lance suddenly threw a drink in her face.&nbsp; \u201cI didn\u2019t have a drink to throw back so I did choose violence, but I wasn\u2019t that violent.&nbsp; He got a little tap on the back of the head,\u201d said Teddy.&nbsp; You don\u2019t think\u2026do you?<\/p>\n<p>How would you like to be a fly on the wall in Tom Daley\u2019s bedroom?&nbsp; The diver shared what he and the hubby do every night in bed \u2013 and it\u2019s as scintillating as you\u2019d expect.&nbsp; \u201cWhen we get to bed, we always ask each other what our best and worst part of the day was.&nbsp; It\u2019s a good opportunity to share something nice, but then also share something that wasn\u2019t.&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t necessarily have to mean I\u2019m pissed off about him.&nbsp; It could be anything, but just being able to create that conversation.\u201d&nbsp; And you wonder why Tom knits!&nbsp; And this was BEFORE the head trauma!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been a curious development in the life of Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black.&nbsp; \u201cA month ago I sustained a serious head injury that put me out of commission.&nbsp; Showing little improvement, my doctors ordered me to shut off my brain in hopes of it healing.\u201d&nbsp; This sounds scary, and certainly our thoughts are with<\/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-90775","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\/90775","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=90775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90784,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90775\/revisions\/90784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}