{"id":9704,"date":"2022-05-31T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=9704"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:02:41","slug":"let-me-have-a-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2022\/05\/31\/let-me-have-a-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"let me have a turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHere&#8217;s a simple story of what happened when a young, uncertain on whether he was gay and what it meant, thinking about self harm, called his local queer bookstore <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TweetChizone\/status\/1102653430051557376\">and found a community eager to help him<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd SHE, this 50-something lesbian talks to this stranger on the phone. And a LINE FORMS BEHIND HER. Every customer in that store knows that call, knows that feeling, and every person takes a turn talking to that man.<br \/>\nThat story comforts me so much to this day.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nJoe also told his story to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queersplaining.com\/2019\/03\/07\/let-me-have-a-turn\/\">queersplaining podcast<\/a>, going into some more detail. A heartwarming story even if, as the podcast host notes, he shouldn&#8217;t have had to call a bookstore to get somebody to listen to and help him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a simple story of what happened when a young, uncertain on whether he was gay and what it meant, thinking about self harm, called his local queer bookstore and found a community eager to help him: And SHE, this 50-something lesbian talks to this stranger on the phone. And a LINE FORMS BEHIND HER. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9705,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704\/revisions\/9705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}