{"id":1634,"date":"2022-06-14T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:13:10","slug":"gay-bar-why-we-went-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/gay-bar-why-we-went-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Bar: Why We Went Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ee-big-quote wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI found myself taking more risks, because failure had a second life\u2014it could spin a yarn. There was an agency in the retelling, in the self-deprecation and of course self-mythologizing. Memoir is how you groom yourself. Memoir is drag.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/20392507.Jeremy_Atherton_Lin\"><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeremy Atherton Lin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1589,100],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","tag-jeremy-atherton-lin","tag-lgbtqia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}