{"id":36885,"date":"2011-11-30T00:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T00:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/30\/ellen-degeneres-was-the-worst-case-scenario\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T22:21:00","slug":"ellen-degeneres-was-the-worst-case-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/30\/ellen-degeneres-was-the-worst-case-scenario\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-36885 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/30\/ellen-degeneres-was-the-worst-case-scenario\/attachment\/36886\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_ljy1o3zNes1qzsetuo1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_ljy1o3zNes1qzsetuo1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_ljy1o3zNes1qzsetuo1_500-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_ljy1o3zNes1qzsetuo1_500-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_ljy1o3zNes1qzsetuo1_500.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cEllen DeGeneres was the \u201cworst-case scenario.\u201d She would expose me as being gay. She would force me to live a truthful, honest life, to be\u00a0exactly\u00a0who I am with no\u00a0pretense. I thank God for her every day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> I highly recommend inviting the worse-case scenario into your life. I met Ellen when I was 168 pounds and she loved me. She didn\u2019t see that I was heavy; she only saw the person inside. My two greatest fears, being fat and being gay, when\u00a0realized, led to my greatest joy, and yet I tried so hard to present myself as anything other than who I am. And I didn\u2019t just one day wake up and be true to myself. Ellen saw a glimpse of my inner being from underneath the flesh and bone, reached in, and pulled me out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <em>Unbearable Lightness<\/em> by Portia De Rossi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEllen DeGeneres was the \u201cworst-case scenario.\u201d She would expose me as being gay. She would force me to live a truthful, honest life, to be\u00a0exactly\u00a0who I am with no\u00a0pretense. I thank God for her every day. I highly recommend inviting the worse-case scenario into your life. I met Ellen when I was 168 pounds and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/11\/30\/ellen-degeneres-was-the-worst-case-scenario\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9250],"class_list":["post-36885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-9250","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36887,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36885\/revisions\/36887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}