{"id":1071,"date":"2024-01-10T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/is-it-ok-to-speculate-about-taylor-swifts-sexuality-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:42:15","slug":"is-it-ok-to-speculate-about-taylor-swifts-sexuality-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/is-it-ok-to-speculate-about-taylor-swifts-sexuality-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it OK to speculate about Taylor Swift\u2019s sexuality? | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take more offence at the idea that it\u2019s upsetting to discuss a public person\u2019s sexuality in 2024 \u2013 especially when no one seems perturbed at gossip about celebrities\u2019 <em>straight<\/em> sex lives<\/p>\n<p>For about 18 months there was incredibly disruptive construction going on next door to me. It drove me mad. Like verging-on-a-nervous-breakdown mad. I became obsessed with the history of construction-related legislation in Philadelphia and pitched one of my editors a 10,000-word piece on planning permission and party walls. They looked at me kindly and said \u201cno\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>All of which to say: sometimes you need an editor to rein you in. Sometimes you need an editor to tell you that while it\u2019s OK for you to be weirdly obsessed about something, it might be best if you didn\u2019t go down a rabbit hole on the opinion pages of a national newspaper.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/10\/taylor-swift-op-ed-lgbt-sexuality-right-wrong-discuss-celebrity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take more offence at the idea that it\u2019s upsetting to discuss a public person\u2019s sexuality in 2024 \u2013 especially when no one seems perturbed at gossip about celebrities\u2019 straight sex lives For about 18 months there was incredibly disruptive construction going on next door to me. It drove me mad. Like verging-on-a-nervous-breakdown mad. I &#8230; <a title=\"Is it OK to speculate about Taylor Swift\u2019s sexuality? | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/is-it-ok-to-speculate-about-taylor-swifts-sexuality-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Is it OK to speculate about Taylor Swift\u2019s sexuality? | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}