{"id":188607,"date":"2010-08-25T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/25\/so-not-a-surprise-39\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T23:15:00","slug":"so-not-a-surprise-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/25\/so-not-a-surprise-39\/","title":{"rendered":"So Not a Surprise\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bush (Jr.) Campaign manager and RNC chairman Ken Mehlman has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/08\/bush-campaign-chief-and-former-rnc-chair-ken-mehlman-im-gay\/62065\/\">come out of the closet<\/a>, admitting that he was gay.<\/p>\n<p>While his coming out might be a bit of a surprise, his sexuality has been a matter of discussion for years.<\/p>\n<p>I would note that while he was head of the RNC, they ramped up appeals to homophobic bigotry, and he has not spoken to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bush (Jr.) Campaign manager and RNC chairman Ken Mehlman has come out of the closet, admitting that he was gay. While his coming out might be a bit of a surprise, his sexuality has been a matter of discussion for years. I would note that while he was head of the RNC, they ramped &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1051,1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-hypocrisy","category-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}