{"id":529,"date":"2018-03-28T12:58:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/?p=529"},"modified":"2018-03-28T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:58:25","slug":"instagram-post-3-prayers-for-bobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-3-prayers-for-bobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Post 3 &#8211; Prayers for Bobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Instagram-Post-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-530\" src=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Instagram-Post-3-300x221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Instagram-Post-3-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Instagram-Post-3-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Instagram-Post-3.png 1021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week I decided to focus on the film \u201cPrayers for Bobby\u201d that is based on the book of the same name written by Leroy F. Aarons. The film is based on a true story about Bobby Griffith, a gay man that killed himself in 1983 because of his own mother&#8217;s homophobia. The story follows how Bobby\u2019s mother starts to question her beliefs after Bobby commits suicide and ultimately delivers a speech that ends with \u201cbefore you echo amen in your home and place of worship, think, think and remember a child is listening\u201d as a reminder that bigotry and hate towards people can have dire consequences.<br \/>\n#LGBTQExperiencesUSA #LGBTQExperiencesWithFaith #LGBTQandReligion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I decided to focus on the film \u201cPrayers for Bobby\u201d that is based on the book of the same name written by Leroy F. Aarons. The film is based on a true story about Bobby Griffith, a gay man that killed himself in 1983 because of his own mother&#8217;s homophobia. The story follows &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-3-prayers-for-bobby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instagram Post 3 &#8211; Prayers for Bobby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}