{"id":19418,"date":"2019-02-25T21:08:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19418"},"modified":"2019-02-25T21:08:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:08:27","slug":"meet-ashton-p-woods-houstons-next-political-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/25\/meet-ashton-p-woods-houstons-next-political-superstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ashton P. Woods, Houston\u2019s Next Political Superstar"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-397202\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/53296974_1116126115215559_577721604377673728_n-copy.jpg?w=1068\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"715\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display:inline !important;float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#333333;font-family:'Raleway', sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0;\">When I first spoke to Ashton P. Woods three years ago, I<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hivplusmag.com\/stigma\/2016\/6\/13\/53-our-most-amazing-hiv-positive-people-2016-ashton-p-woods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" wrote (opens in a new tab)\"> wrote<\/a><span style=\"display:inline !important;float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#333333;font-family:'Raleway', sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0;\">, \u201cHouston-based activist and blogger Ashton P. Woods is gay, atheist, HIV-positive and \u201cunapologetically black.\u201d While none of these things completely define Woods, they highlight his multiple identities and, hopefully, remind others that being black is not monolithic. In Woods\u2019 view, justice must be intersectional and nowhere is this walk the talk more evident than his involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement.\u201d<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2019\/02\/meet-ashton-p-woods\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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>When I first spoke to Ashton P. Woods three years ago, I wrote, \u201cHouston-based activist and blogger Ashton P. Woods is gay,&#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-19418","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\/19418","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=19418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}