{"id":1600,"date":"2012-08-03T19:43:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T19:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2012\/08\/03\/wherein-i-talk-about-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2012-08-03T19:43:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T19:43:44","slug":"wherein-i-talk-about-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wherein-i-talk-about-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I talk about Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written: 8\/3\/2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Lebanese, and proud of that heritage. \u00a0I love the food (or at least most of it), and I like to be able to add my heritage into conversations about racial intolerance and catch people off guard. \u00a0And even though I have the physical look of my German grandfather, I sear I am a quarter Lebanese.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the country is a weird contradiction. \u00a0Beirut\u00a0has become a sort of attraction spot for the LGBT community offering a lot of gay clubs. \u00a0But sadly, like many other countries, it is still not entirely safe for the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p>Three dozen men were arrested from a gay cinema, and then forcibly probed and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2012\/08\/36-men-arrested-in-lebanon-gay-cinema-raid.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+towleroad%2Ffeed+%28Towleroad+Daily++%23gay+news%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">made to pay for the invasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad to see, even though we&#8217;ve made a lot of progress in so many areas (oftentimes in the form of two steps forward, one step back), it is still a shame to see these kind of actions anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>All my best,<\/p>\n<p>The King of Spades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written: 8\/3\/2012 I&#8217;m Lebanese, and proud of that heritage. \u00a0I love the food (or at least most of it), and I like to be able to add my heritage into conversations about racial intolerance and catch people off guard. \u00a0And even though I have the physical look of my German grandfather, I sear I am a quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-king-of-spades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}