{"id":19392,"date":"2019-02-23T18:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T18:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19392"},"modified":"2019-02-23T18:38:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T18:38:53","slug":"does-it-matter-bohemian-rhapsody-changed-when-mercury-was-diagnosed-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/23\/does-it-matter-bohemian-rhapsody-changed-when-mercury-was-diagnosed-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Does it matter Bohemian Rhapsody changed when Mercury was diagnosed HIV+?"},"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><header style=\"box-sizing:border-box;display:block;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', sans-serif;font-size:10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">\n<h2>\u00a0sake of narrative<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-featured\" style=\"box-sizing:border-box;float:left;display:inline;position:relative;margin:0;padding:0;width:551.75px;clear:both;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', sans-serif;font-size:10px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" gs-image-49\" src=\"https:\/\/j3qv61hblip1j0um31ja92y1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rami_malek_freddit_mercury_alex_bailey_fox.jpg\" alt=\"Does it matter Bohemian Rhapsody changed when Mercury was diagnosed HIV+?\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"description\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"credit\">Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, performing at Live Aid in the movie, Bohemian Rhapsody (Photo: Alex Bailey\/20th Century Fox)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 0 1em;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.5em;color:#111111;font-family:'open sans', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">During their peak in the 70s and 80s,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/adam-lambert-and-queen-will-rock-the-oscars-stage-this-weekend\/\">Queen<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0divided audiences and critics. The band often prompted a cool response from the music press but still enjoyed huge commercial appeal around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 0 1em;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.5em;color:#111111;font-family:'open sans', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">It seems strangely fitting that their biopic,\u00a0<strong>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/strong>, has continued that tradition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0 0 1em;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1.5em;color:#111111;font-family:'open sans', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">When it hit movie theaters last year, the critics \u2013 again \u2013 were lukewarm or downright scathing. Audiences, however, lapped it up. Taking over $640million at the box office against a production budget of $52million, it\u2019s the most successful music biopic in history. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/bohemian-rhapsody-mercury-hiv\/#gs.0iNjzi6i\">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>\u00a0sake of narrative Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, performing at Live Aid in the movie, Bohemian Rhapsody (Photo: Alex Bailey\/20th Century Fox)&#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-19392","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\/19392","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=19392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}