{"id":91612,"date":"2023-07-09T19:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T02:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91612"},"modified":"2023-07-09T19:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T02:11:38","slug":"the-six-year-gay-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/07\/09\/the-six-year-gay-itch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Six Year Gay Itch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve had a spate of gay breakups that make one take pause \u2013 depersonally, if possible.&nbsp; Most notable is <strong>Ricky Martin <\/strong>and <strong>Jwan Yosef<\/strong>, who are divorcing after six years.&nbsp; \u201cWe have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and honoring what we have experienced as a couple all these wonderful years.\u201d&nbsp; How many publicists and lawyers did it take to craft that?&nbsp; Not that I don\u2019t believe the sentiment, but the legalese is thick.&nbsp; Other reports claim the relationship was \u201copen\u201d\u2026lest we forget the nephew\u2019s allegations.&nbsp; Going back to the official release, it mentions Ricky had twin boys 11 years prior to marrying Jwan \u2013 \u201cwhom he will continue to raise as a single parent\u201d.&nbsp; So Jwan was married to a man with kids ages 9 through 15 but wasn\u2019t a parent?&nbsp; Skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is <strong>Billy Porter<\/strong>\u2019s break with <strong>Adam Smith<\/strong>.&nbsp; The press seems fascinated that they married after a two-week engagement \u2013 like they\u2019re <strong>Kardashians<\/strong>!&nbsp; To be accurate, the couple dated for a year back in 2009.&nbsp; For whatever reason, it didn\u2019t work out.&nbsp; Then in 2015, they reunited, dated for almost two years, and then got engaged and married a fortnight later.&nbsp; \u201cThe decision was an amicable and mutual one and made after much consideration,\u201d says publicist <strong>Simon Halls <\/strong>\u2013 enough said!&nbsp; I couldn\u2019t help but note that both these breakups happened after six years of marriage.&nbsp; The straights have the seven-year itch.&nbsp; Maybe we gays figure it out quicker!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve had a spate of gay breakups that make one take pause \u2013 depersonally, if possible.&nbsp; Most notable is Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef, who are divorcing after six years.&nbsp; \u201cWe have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and honoring what we have experienced as a couple all<\/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-91612","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\/91612","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=91612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91613,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91612\/revisions\/91613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}