{"id":1779,"date":"2013-01-02T01:02:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T01:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2013\/01\/02\/wherein-i-take-a-look-back-at-2012\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T01:02:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T01:02:21","slug":"wherein-i-take-a-look-back-at-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wherein-i-take-a-look-back-at-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I take a look back at 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written: 1\/2\/2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2012 was a big year, for a lot of reasons. \u00a0And in the LGBT community, we have a lot to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2012\/12\/gay-surge-150-game-changing-wins-2012-gayest-year-ever.html\">Towleroad has 150 &#8220;game-changing&#8221; moments<\/a> of the year, from the sitting president endorsing marriage equality to engagements, the full repeal of DADT and so much more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/outsports.com\/jocktalkblog\/2012\/12\/27\/2012-outsports-year-in-review-the-rise-of-the-straight-ally\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=2012-outsports-year-in-review-the-rise-of-the-straight-ally\">Outsports has a roundup of the biggest news stories<\/a> of the year from the sports community.<\/p>\n<p>Gay film make Ryan James Yezak put together an end of the year video. \u00a0It covers all news and pop culture, but is in his unique style (seizure warning, seriously. \u00a0I tend not to like much of what he does because of it, but this I really liked):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1098\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5W-yS6IcJO0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>And finally, Towleroad has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2012\/12\/2012_gay_coming_out.html\">50 biggest coming outs of the year<\/a>. \u00a0You can put me at number 51.<\/p>\n<p>Of course for me, I finally began living my life to the fullest and more honestly. \u00a0I certainly have a ways to go, but I&#8217;m excited for what 2013 will have in store for me.<\/p>\n<p>All my best,<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written: 1\/2\/2013 2012 was a big year, for a lot of reasons. \u00a0And in the LGBT community, we have a lot to celebrate. Towleroad has 150 &#8220;game-changing&#8221; moments of the year, from the sitting president endorsing marriage equality to engagements, the full repeal of DADT and so much more. Outsports has a roundup of the biggest news [&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":[1899,1953,1950,1432,1952,1951,1954],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-king-of-spades","tag-1899","tag-coming-out","tag-game-changing-moments","tag-lgbt","tag-outsports","tag-towleroad","tag-yezak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","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=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}