{"id":1347,"date":"2008-02-03T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/03\/mel-gibson-anti-gay\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T18:00:40","slug":"mel-gibson-anti-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/mel-gibson-anti-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson: Anti Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mel Gibson broke off relations with recently departed actor Heath Ledger after he spurned Gibson&#8217;s advice not to accept the role of a gay cowboy in &#8220;Brokeback Mountain.&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;Ledger asked Gibson whether he should take the role of Ennis Del Mar in &#8216;Brokeback,'&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;Gibson strongly counseled against it. The role apparently ran counter to Gibson&#8217;s morality. And he felt that it would ruin Heath&#8217;s career.[source: newsmax.com]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Gibson broke off relations with recently departed actor Heath Ledger after he spurned Gibson&#8217;s advice not to accept the role of a gay cowboy in &#8220;Brokeback Mountain.&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;Ledger asked Gibson whether he should take the role of Ennis Del Mar in &#8216;Brokeback,&#8217;&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;Gibson strongly counseled against it. The role apparently ran counter to Gibson&#8217;s morality. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/mel-gibson-anti-gay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mel Gibson: Anti Gay<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-lJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}