{"id":91988,"date":"2023-11-12T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T01:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91988"},"modified":"2023-11-12T17:35:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T01:35:58","slug":"same-sex-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/11\/12\/same-sex-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Sex Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I occasionally come off as someone who\u2019s seen it all and isn\u2019t fazed by much.&nbsp; But last week, I was watching <strong><em>Dancing in the Stars<\/em><\/strong> (as <strong>Barbara Walters <\/strong>liked to call it) and there was a moment in the group dance when the pairs interchanged.&nbsp; Suddenly we had four same-sex partnerships: <strong>Barry Williams <\/strong>and <strong>Sasha<\/strong>, <strong>Jason Mraz <\/strong>and <strong>Pasha<\/strong>, <strong>Alyson Hannigan <\/strong>and <strong>Peta<\/strong>, <strong>Ariana Madix <\/strong>and <strong>Daniella<\/strong>.&nbsp; I have to confess, my little gay boy heart skipped a bit of a beat.&nbsp; What\u2019s most interesting is that none of the dancers nor the judges mentioned it \u2013 as if it were no big deal.&nbsp; And I thought to myself\u2026what a message they\u2019re sending out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I occasionally come off as someone who\u2019s seen it all and isn\u2019t fazed by much.&nbsp; But last week, I was watching Dancing in the Stars (as Barbara Walters liked to call it) and there was a moment in the group dance when the pairs interchanged.&nbsp; Suddenly we had four same-sex partnerships: Barry Williams<\/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-91988","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\/91988","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=91988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91989,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91988\/revisions\/91989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}