{"id":19109,"date":"2019-02-12T07:11:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19109"},"modified":"2019-02-12T07:11:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:11:22","slug":"the-fight-against-hiv-will-not-waver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/the-fight-against-hiv-will-not-waver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fight Against HIV Will Not Waver"},"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><div class=\"articleImg \">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Fight Against HIV Will Not Waver \" src=\"https:\/\/www.hivplusmag.com\/sites\/hivplusmag.com\/files\/2019\/02\/08\/dianes-ed-letter-photox750.jpg\" alt=\"DIANE ANDERSON-MINSHALL\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"authorBox\">\n<div class=\"box\">\n<div class=\"articleTeaser\">\n<p>People living with HIV are a resilient bunch, and history continues to repeat itself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s a photo above my desk, from 1994, that I\u2019ve carted around for decades now. That year was a turning point for me. Fresh off 12 months of homelessness in San Francisco (at the time, one of the only cities where you could be gainfully employed and still experiencing homelessness), I finally had a roof over my head \u2014 a 12-foot trailer with no working toilet or shower (we had to get creative) an hour outside of the city. I received my first Macintosh computer that year, a big box with a little nine-inch screen that I paid for in installments. I toiled away writing essays at night, and by day editing my new lesbian magazine <em>Girlfriends<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hivplusmag.com\/editors-column\/2019\/2\/11\/fight-against-hiv-will-not-waver\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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>\u00a0 People living with HIV are a resilient bunch, and history continues to repeat itself. &nbsp; There\u2019s a photo above my desk,&#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-19109","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\/19109","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=19109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}