{"id":330,"date":"2012-01-06T23:48:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T21:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zahraowens.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2012-02-17T01:07:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T23:07:53","slug":"it-gets-better-if-you-can-choose-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"It Gets Better (if You Can Choose Your Friends)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I posted pictures of myself on my site here. It took a lot of courage for me to do that, since I&#8217;m not exactly Miss Happy-With-Herself.<\/p>\n<p>Since I have an It Gets Better story coming out, I needed to make an It Gets Better video.<br \/>\nWho knew I could blab to myself like that?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aSimkDGL-IM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This takes courage too (no photoshopping!), but since it&#8217;s for a good cause&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/600px-US_5.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-308\" title=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/600px-US_5.svg_-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/600px-US_5.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/600px-US_5.svg_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/600px-US_5.svg_.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> days to go until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamspinnerpress.com\/store\/product_info.php?products_id=2715\" target=\"_blank\">You Can Choose Your Friends<\/a> is available! $1.20 going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itgetsbetter.org\" target=\"_blank\">ItGetsBetter<\/a> project for every copy sold!<\/p>\n<p>(BTW, thank you to Stuart Wakefield for helping me record this)<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/JavaScript\">var TFN='';var TFA='';var TFI='0';var TFL='0';var tf_RetServer=\"rt.trafficfacts.com\";var tf_SiteId=\"3d7d44b6821a3e2df1d249d352d08cd0e4a23bca\";var tf_ScrServer=document.location.protocol+\"\/\/rt.trafficfacts.com\/tf.php?k=3d7d44b6821a3e2df1d249d352d08cd0e4a23bca;c=s;v=5\";document.write(unescape('%3Cscript type=\"text\/JavaScript\" src=\"'+tf_ScrServer+'\">%3C\/script>'));<\/script><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.trafficfacts.com\/ns.php?k=3d7d44b6821a3e2df1d249d352d08cd0e4a23bca\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I posted pictures of myself on my site here. It took a lot of courage for me to do that, since I&#8217;m not exactly Miss Happy-With-Herself. Since I have an It Gets Better story coming out, I needed to make an It Gets Better video. Who knew I could blab to myself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-itgetsbetter-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zahraowens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}