{"id":1409,"date":"2013-01-31T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2013-04-17T19:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T19:31:06","slug":"schools-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"school&#8217;s out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courage: A kid in school comes out to MTB after class.<\/p>\n<p>Meets courage: MTB comes out to the kid.<\/p>\n<p>First off, WAY TO GO HOMOS! Seriously, this shit needs to be happening every day. Also, it&#8217;s 2013 and it&#8217;s still a radical and scary thing for anyone in a school to come out and be out. And for everyone I know who is prepared to tell me a story about how there are out kids in their school and its no big deal, I am more than 110% sure I can come up with a boat load of stories about how it sucks or is impossible to be out in school, as in teachers and coaches getting fired and kids getting\u00a0harassed\u00a0and beat up. The <em>It Gets Better Campaign<\/em> is a bullshit answer. How about some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt-rights\/lgbt-youth-schools\">ACLU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2012\/07\/gay-teen-assaulted-in-school-reaches-settlement-with-school-district.html\">action<\/a>?\u00a0Better yet, how about us queers organizing to make schools a safe fucking place to be queer? Seriously, how do we do that shit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courage: A kid in school comes out to MTB after class. Meets courage: MTB comes out to the kid. First off, WAY TO GO HOMOS! Seriously, this shit needs to be happening every day. Also, it&#8217;s 2013 and it&#8217;s still a radical and scary thing for anyone in a school to come out and be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtb","category-queer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}