{"id":91468,"date":"2023-05-21T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91468"},"modified":"2023-05-21T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:00:51","slug":"gay-canadian-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/05\/21\/gay-canadian-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Canadian Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve seen a number of videos called <strong><em>Ride<\/em><\/strong>, but nothing I\u2019d expect to see on the <em>Hallmark Channel<\/em>.&nbsp; This <em>Ride<\/em> features <strong>Jake Foy<\/strong>, who is openly gay and Canadian (well, it is <em>Hallmark<\/em>).&nbsp; Fun fact \u2013 one of his first roles was in the original workshop of the musical <strong><em>Come From Away<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 so he\u2019s like the Canadian <strong>Jenifer Lewis <\/strong>(for the three of you who will get that).&nbsp; In <em>Ride<\/em>, he plays Tuff McMurray, a gay member of the central family.&nbsp; Yes, a gay cowboy.&nbsp; From Canada.&nbsp; On the <em>Hallmark Channel<\/em>.&nbsp; This is how the network describes him: \u201cTuff is a man of many hats: he protects his brother in the ring by being his bull fighter, he is the Foreman of the ranch, and he\u2019s also an aspiring musician.\u201d&nbsp; For those of you new to the <em>Hallmark Channel<\/em>, that\u2019s code for \u201cgay\u201d.&nbsp; Why am I telling you any of this?&nbsp; Because Jake just got engaged to his longtime real-life beau, <strong>Nicolas La Traverse<\/strong>.&nbsp; Congrats!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention that <em>Ride<\/em> also stars <strong>Dylan Neal<\/strong>, who at one point was on <strong><em>The Bold and the Beautiful<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 and played a male stripper!&nbsp; I\u2019d lost track of him in the ensuing years, but he seems to have matured quite nicely.&nbsp; Maybe I\u2019ll post some of that steamier celluloid on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve seen a number of videos called Ride, but nothing I\u2019d expect to see on the Hallmark Channel.&nbsp; This Ride features Jake Foy, who is openly gay and Canadian (well, it is Hallmark).&nbsp; Fun fact \u2013 one of his first roles was in the original workshop of the musical Come From Away \u2013 so he\u2019s<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91468","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\/91468","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=91468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91469,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91468\/revisions\/91469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}