{"id":20995,"date":"2013-05-02T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20995"},"modified":"2013-05-02T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:00:06","slug":"nba-center-jason-collins-reveals-he-is-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20995","title":{"rendered":"NBA Center Jason Collins Reveals He Is Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jason Collins<\/strong> just may be the bravest NBA center of all time. In the May 6, 2013 issue of <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>, the Stanford grad reveals that he is gay.<\/p>\n<p>The story is written in a first person perspective, and the NBA journeyman gets right to the point. I\u2019m a 34-year-old NBA center. I\u2019m Black. And I\u2019m gay. I didn\u2019t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I\u2019m happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn\u2019t the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, \u201cI\u2019m different.\u201d If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I\u2019m raising my hand.<\/p>\n<p>A kicker to the story is that his twin brother,<strong> Jarron<\/strong>, claims he had no idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Collins just may be the bravest NBA center of all time. In the May 6, 2013 issue of Sports Illustrated, the Stanford grad reveals that he is gay. The story is written in a first person perspective, and the NBA journeyman gets right to the point. I\u2019m a 34-year-old NBA center. I\u2019m Black. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}