{"id":1424,"date":"2008-08-19T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2008-08-19T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T16:30:52","slug":"matt-bransons-coming-out-story-retold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Matt Branson&#8217;s Coming Out Story Retold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/branno.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/branno.jpg','popup','width=200,height=155,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/branno-tm.jpg\" height=\"155\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Branno\" \/><\/a>Australian surfer <strong>Matt Branson<\/strong> is one of the only mainstream pro surfers to tell the world that he is gay. And <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stabmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stab Magazine<\/a><\/strong> helped him do that with <strong>Fred Pawle&#8217;s<\/strong> story <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stabmag.com\/individuals\/king-of-queens.php\" target=\"_blank\">The King of Queens<\/a><\/strong>. The story is being retold in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smh.com.au\/lifestyle\/allmenareliars\/archives\/2008\/08\/coming_out_hardcore.html?page=fullpage\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald&#8217;s All Men Are Liars<\/a><\/strong> column.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though Branson&#8217;s orientation was no secret amongst those in the know, this was the first time a former or current pro-surfer has gone on the record admitting they were gay and in the wider surfing community it was still met with shock and awe that &#8220;Branno&#8221; would be the one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We missed it the first time, and it&#8217;s a good read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smh.com.au\/lifestyle\/allmenareliars\/archives\/2008\/08\/coming_out_hardcore.html?page=fullpage\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian surfer Matt Branson is one of the only mainstream pro surfers to tell the world that he is gay. And Stab Magazine helped him do that with Fred Pawle&#8217;s story The King of Queens. The story is being retold in the Sydney Morning Herald&#8217;s All Men Are Liars column. Though Branson&#8217;s orientation was no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}