{"id":40829,"date":"2025-05-07T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/fox-chase-boy-standup-comedy-confronts-trauma-in-a-catholic-community\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:21:31","slug":"fox-chase-boy-standup-comedy-confronts-trauma-in-a-catholic-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/fox-chase-boy-standup-comedy-confronts-trauma-in-a-catholic-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Chase Boy: standup comedy confronts trauma in a Catholic community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is surprising nostalgia and humour in Gerad Argeros\u2019s story of healing after child abuse by a Catholic priest. He was an altar boy at St Cecilia Catholic church in north-east Philadelphia when, at age 11, he became one of the victims of paedophile James Brzyski. Decades later, the actor and father developed the one-man stage show Fox Chase Boy. Performing it to his close-knit parish he speaks directly about a crime cloaked in silence, and brings welcome insight into their collective trauma<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/may\/07\/fox-chase-boy-standup-comedy-confronts-trauma-in-a-catholic-community\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is surprising nostalgia and humour in Gerad Argeros\u2019s story of healing after child abuse by a Catholic priest. He was an altar boy at St Cecilia Catholic church in north-east Philadelphia when, at age 11, he became one of the victims of paedophile James Brzyski. Decades later, the actor and father developed the one-man &#8230; <a title=\"Fox Chase Boy: standup comedy confronts trauma in a Catholic community\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/fox-chase-boy-standup-comedy-confronts-trauma-in-a-catholic-community\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fox Chase Boy: standup comedy confronts trauma in a Catholic community\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-40829","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\/40829","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}