{"id":19041,"date":"2019-02-09T07:37:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T07:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19041"},"modified":"2019-02-09T07:37:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T07:37:37","slug":"rapids-what-it-means-to-live-hiv-positive-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/rapids-what-it-means-to-live-hiv-positive-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapids &#8211; what it means to live HIV positive in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"main-article-image\" class=\"clearfix gallery-image \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"changeable\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rasset.ie\/00118194-800.jpg\" alt=\"Shaun Dunne in Rapids\" \/><figcaption class=\"gutter\">Shaun Dunne in Rapids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><\/div>\n<section class=\"medium-10 medium-offset-1 columns article-body\"><b>Robbie Lawlor speaks on his experience supporting HIV positive people to participate in acclaimed documentary theatre project\u00a0<i>Rapids, <\/i>which tours Ireland this month \u2013 despite the fact that secrecy, shame and stigma still combine to silence this community.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I was 21 when I was diagnosed with HIV. Safe to say, it was a huge shock to me. I was only a young fella and I didn\u2019t see it coming. The first thing I asked was could I still go to Australia. And straight away, I was told no. That I was too sick, that I wouldn\u2019t be able to go. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/culture\/2019\/0207\/1028115-rapids-what-it-means-to-live-hiv-positive-in-ireland\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Shaun Dunne in Rapids Robbie Lawlor speaks on his experience supporting HIV positive people to participate in acclaimed documentary theatre project\u00a0Rapids, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}