{"id":11095,"date":"2016-03-23T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=11095"},"modified":"2016-03-23T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:21:45","slug":"to-find-those-beacons-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/23\/to-find-those-beacons-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"to find those beacons of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/03\/rupaul-drag-race-interview.html?om_rid=AADk4n&amp;om_mid=_BW8vYEB9L2xcqc\" target=\"_blank\">rupaul<\/a>, part 2:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>David Bowie was a big influence on you. Did you ever get to meet him?<\/b><br \/>\nI did, yeah.\u00a0I was at a dinner party and when I saw he was there, I had to excuse myself into the library of this swanky house. Actually, it&#8217;s a house that David Geffen owns now, but it wasn&#8217;t his then. I excused myself to breathe a little bit, you know? Thinking back, I guess he came in there specifically because he knew that I went in there. And he said &#8220;Hi&#8221; and shook my hand. I said, &#8220;Hi, great to see you.&#8221; And we spoke for a little bit. Then I actually escaped the party and didn&#8217;t sit down for dinner because I had to go downstairs and let out the screaming and crying that followed.<\/p>\n<p><b>What does he mean for you?<\/b><br \/>\nI talk about the sweet, sensitive souls, the people who are my tribe, you know? And how hard it is to navigate your heart in this plane, in this linear, basic, mediocre, hypocritical world. To find those beacons of light in that darkness is such a gift. And he is that. He still is that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rupaul, part 2: David Bowie was a big influence on you. Did you ever get to meet him? I did, yeah.\u00a0I was at a dinner party and when I saw he was there, I had to excuse myself into the library of this swanky house. Actually, it&#8217;s a house that David Geffen owns now, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11100,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095\/revisions\/11100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}