{"id":4636,"date":"2011-06-14T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2011-06-14T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:28:08","slug":"hiliarty-ensues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4636","title":{"rendered":"Hiliarty ensues."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4622\">&#8220;Gay Girl in Damascus&#8221; story we linked on Sunday?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you clicked through to the WP link, you may have noticed, but not thought much about, the mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/a-gay-girl-in-damascus-comes-clean\/2011\/06\/12\/AGkyH0RH_story_1.html\">Paula Brooks, editor of &#8220;Lez Get Real&#8221;, a lesbian news Web site based in Washington.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/a-gay-girl-in-damascus-comes-clean\/2011\/06\/12\/AGkyH0RH_story_1.html\">In several interviews, the editor \u2014 who spoke on condition that she be  identified only by her pseudonym, Paula Brooks \u2014  said she encouraged  Amina to write more, first on Lez Get Real and later on a new blog,  titled \u201cA Gay Girl in Damascus.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You probably see the punchline coming at this point, but we have to carry on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/paula-brooks-editor-of-lesbian-site-lez-get-real-is-really-a-man-named-bill-graber\/2011\/06\/13\/AGJcikTH_story.html?hpid=z4\">&#8220;Paula Brooks&#8221; is actually a 58-year-old male construction worker from Ohio.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re kind of wondering if the <strong>WP <\/strong>is going to make outing lesbian bloggers who aren&#8217;t lesbians (or female) a trend, or if this was just, as &#8220;Paula Brooks&#8221; puts it, &#8220;a major sock-puppet hoax crash into a major sock-puppet hoax&#8221;. We kind of hope for the former, as it provides more entertainment than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/americas\/us-report-70-percent-of-arms-seized-traced-in-mexico-came-from-us\/2011\/06\/13\/AGR2TlTH_story.html?hpid=z3\"><strong>WP<\/strong>&#8216;s gun coverage.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the &#8220;Gay Girl in Damascus&#8221; story we linked on Sunday? If you clicked through to the WP link, you may have noticed, but not thought much about, the mention of Paula Brooks, editor of &#8220;Lez Get Real&#8221;, a lesbian news Web site based in Washington. In several interviews, the editor \u2014 who spoke on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-guns","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}