{"id":3150,"date":"2018-03-17T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T16:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2018-04-18T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:30:56","slug":"love-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"Love, Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months ago I heard that Greg Berlanti, on the producers and writers from Dawson&#8217;s Creek, was going to direct a teen movie featuring a gay love story. Berlanti has gone on to do lots and lots of other things but Dawson&#8217;s Creek will always be my favorite. A teen love story featuring a gay character is something that had not been done. I was interested both in the movie and how it would be received.<\/p>\n<p>Then Bren found out about it.<\/p>\n<p>He knew all the details- the book it was based on, the actors in the movie and when it was coming to theaters. He insisted we needed to see it. I learned through social media that there would be a preview in Boston and took the boys to see it.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say- it was great. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarymommy.com\/love-simon-movie-all-our-kids-need\/\">I wrote about it for Scary Mommy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months ago I heard that Greg Berlanti, on the producers and writers from Dawson&#8217;s Creek, was going to direct a teen movie featuring a gay love story. Berlanti has gone on to do lots and lots of other things but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=3150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}