{"id":92185,"date":"2024-01-07T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T22:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92185"},"modified":"2024-01-07T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T22:59:13","slug":"taylor-swifts-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/01\/07\/taylor-swifts-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A curious opinion piece appeared in <em>The New York Times<\/em> last week, querying whether <strong>Taylor Swift <\/strong>is in fact a lesbian.&nbsp; I cannot think of a bigger waste of my time than pondering this idea \u2013 although telling you about it seems totally fine.&nbsp; Since the straight men Swift has slept with haven\u2019t gotten off so easily, I can\u2019t imagine lesbians want anything to do with her.&nbsp; The point of the piece is that because Swift is so saintly and omnipresent, she\u2019s fair game.&nbsp; Someone in her camp took exception to this, and said (anonymously, naturally), \u201cThis article wouldn\u2019t have been allowed to be written about <strong>Shawn Mendes <\/strong>or any male artist whose sexuality has been questioned by fans.\u201d&nbsp; Well, isn\u2019t that nice.&nbsp; In protesting Swift\u2019s right to privacy, someone dragged in poor Shawn Mendes \u2013 who is hanging on by a thread.&nbsp; This broken shell of a 25-year-old boy spends his day depressed, listless, doing crunches, and suddenly he reads this.&nbsp; Hasn\u2019t he suffered enough?&nbsp; As for Taylor, she once said this about the LGBT-whatever community: \u201cI didn\u2019t realize until recently that I could advocate for a community that I\u2019m not a part of.\u201d&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; I\u2019m not a straight white male, but I have no problem saying, \u201cLeave Shawn alone.\u201d&nbsp; Then again, I\u2019m no Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curious opinion piece appeared in The New York Times last week, querying whether Taylor Swift is in fact a lesbian.&nbsp; I cannot think of a bigger waste of my time than pondering this idea \u2013 although telling you about it seems totally fine.&nbsp; Since the straight men Swift has slept with haven\u2019t gotten off<\/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-92185","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\/92185","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=92185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92186,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92185\/revisions\/92186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}