{"id":120,"date":"2018-04-30T14:34:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T14:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2018-04-30T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:56:25","slug":"country-queers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/country-queers\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Queers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Self-proclaimed \u201cCountry Queer\u201d Jonah Mossberg from rural northeastern connecticut described:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOne thing that did, in CT, that did really save me, was: \u00a0this queer youth conference that happens once a year and it still happens. \u00a0Back then\u2026now it\u2019s called \u201cTrue Colors\u201d but back then it was called \u201cChildren from the Shadows\u201d\u2026<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bad. Name.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0I\u2019m really glad they changed it, but it was like this queer youth conference that I went to. \u00a0I think I must have snuck away to it somehow, and I was like, \u2018Oh my gosh, there are other queer people around me, wow, this is amazing.\u2019\u201d\u2014Quote from oral history \u201cCountry Queers\u201d, \u00a0September 17, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/feeling-at-home-in-the-body\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-134\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2018\/04\/22previous22-button.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/the-bay-area-american-indian-two-spirits\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-135\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2018\/04\/22next22-button.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-proclaimed \u201cCountry Queer\u201d Jonah Mossberg from rural northeastern connecticut described: \u201cOne thing that did, in CT, that did really save me, was: \u00a0this queer youth conference that happens once a year and it still happens. \u00a0Back then\u2026now it\u2019s called \u201cTrue Colors\u201d but back then it was called \u201cChildren from the Shadows\u201d\u2026Bad. Name. \u00a0I\u2019m really glad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/country-queers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Country Queers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/trans-archives-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}