{"id":19212,"date":"2019-02-15T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19212"},"modified":"2019-02-15T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:00:57","slug":"opinion-people-with-hiv-in-ireland-are-dehumanised-were-seen-as-a-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/opinion-people-with-hiv-in-ireland-are-dehumanised-were-seen-as-a-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: &#8216;People with HIV in Ireland are dehumanised &#8211; we&#8217;re seen as a virus&#8217;"},"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=\"clearfix border readme_author_about\">\n<div class=\"author_info\">\n<div class=\"author_avatar\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/author\/robbie-lawlor\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/f1.thejournal.ie\/media\/2019\/02\/Robbie-Lawlor-Rapids-133x133.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"author_details\">\n<div class=\"contact_box auth_named_desc\"><span class=\"name\"> Robbie Lawlor <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articleContent\">\n<p>I HAVE HUNDREDS of friends who feel trapped within the same secret. This secret typically affects no one but themselves.<\/p>\n<p>But everyone\u2019s secret is both intensely personal and united by the same shared legacy. A legacy of death, fear and ignorance\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A fear that is no longer founded.<\/p>\n<p>These hundreds of friends of mine are living with HIV and they often confide in me that they feel trapped within their secrecy. Their secrecy is borne of an epidemic that we haven\u2019t yet grieved, an epidemic we have found easier to forget than to contend with\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/readme\/hiv-stigma-ireland-4495627-Feb2019\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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>Robbie Lawlor I HAVE HUNDREDS of friends who feel trapped within the same secret. This secret typically affects no one but themselves&#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-19212","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\/19212","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=19212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}