{"id":90976,"date":"2022-12-05T00:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T08:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90976"},"modified":"2022-12-05T00:42:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T08:42:06","slug":"the-more-the-merrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/12\/05\/the-more-the-merrier\/","title":{"rendered":"The More the Merrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone else embracing the holidays is <strong>David Archuleta<\/strong>.&nbsp; He\u2019s in the midst of a tour across Utah called <strong><em>The More The Merrier<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 which also happens to be the title of my <em>Grindr <\/em>profile!&nbsp; During one stop, he talked about his journey to self-acceptance and coming out.&nbsp; After the show, his manager was informed that several people walked out of the concert during the speech.&nbsp; Archie had this to say on the subject: \u201cTwo years ago I was thinking ending my life was better than admitting this openly.&nbsp; If you are more offended that I say I like guys than you are that someone has felt it was better to end their life for that very same reason, I want you to think about why that makes you uncomfortable.&nbsp; I wanted to have uncomfortable conversations.&nbsp; That\u2019s how you gain understanding.\u201d&nbsp; I think we have a future guest for <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since we mentioned the popular hookup app, <em>Grindr <\/em>stock just went public and surged to 400% in the first few hours of the offering.&nbsp; Once the dust settled, it stabilized at about a 214% increase \u2013 which ain\u2019t nothing to sneeze at.&nbsp; Pundits say that the stock might not do well in the current bear market \u2013 which is ironic because there are loads of bears on the app!&nbsp; What?&nbsp; Different kinds of bears?&nbsp; Look, a bear\u2019s a bear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone else embracing the holidays is David Archuleta.&nbsp; He\u2019s in the midst of a tour across Utah called The More The Merrier \u2013 which also happens to be the title of my Grindr profile!&nbsp; During one stop, he talked about his journey to self-acceptance and coming out.&nbsp; After the show, his manager was informed that<\/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-90976","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\/90976","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=90976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90977,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90976\/revisions\/90977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}