{"id":844,"date":"2011-01-13T15:54:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/?p=844"},"modified":"2011-01-14T16:53:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:53:03","slug":"it-gets-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2011\/01\/13\/it-gets-better\/","title":{"rendered":"It Gets Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ETA: DAMNIT! I still can&#8217;t figure out how to embed videos. I&#8217;ll try to fix this later, but for now I&#8217;ll just put the links in)<\/p>\n<p>(E again TA: Richard fixed the embedding! Yay! Thanks again, Richard!)<\/p>\n<p>(3rd edit: adding the above edit borked the embedding again. Sorry. I&#8217;ll try to fix this at some point over the next day or two.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/podcath-part-ii.html\">before<\/a> how much I freakin&#8217; love Dan Savage, and especially his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/itgetsbetterproject\">It Gets Better<\/a>&#8221; campaign to bring hope to GLBT teens being bullied in high school. This week&#8217;s episode of the Savage Love podcast highlighted a related song by Rebecca Drysdale; as soon as the episode was over I went to YouTube to find the video, which I wanted to share with you!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cTQNwMxqM3E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n(NSFW)<\/p>\n<p>Having been bullied all through high school myself for being a swot and a teacher&#8217;s pet, I especially appreciate the shout-out at the end to the straight kids who also get victimised. I can&#8217;t imagine how much worse I would have had it if I&#8217;d been a <em>lesbian<\/em> swot and teacher&#8217;s pet, though.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the topic, here&#8217;s the &#8220;It Gets Better Canada&#8221; video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5p-AT18d9lU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think I love Rick Mercer even more than I love Dan Savage! In fact, here&#8217;s more on the same theme from Rick, just because he&#8217;s lovely:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1Y7qpiu2RQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ETA: DAMNIT! I still can&#8217;t figure out how to embed videos. I&#8217;ll try to fix this later, but for now I&#8217;ll just put the links in) (E again TA: Richard fixed the embedding! Yay! Thanks again, Richard!) (3rd edit: adding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2011\/01\/13\/it-gets-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,14,29,12,19,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-education","category-embarrassing-fan-girl","category-music","category-personal","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}