{"id":20958,"date":"2019-04-10T21:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T21:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20958"},"modified":"2019-04-10T21:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T21:22:01","slug":"chicagoan-recalls-challenges-of-overcoming-hiv-stigma-by-matt-simonette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/chicagoan-recalls-challenges-of-overcoming-hiv-stigma-by-matt-simonette\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicagoan recalls challenges of overcoming HIV stigma by Matt Simonette"},"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>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windycitymediagroup.com\/images\/publications\/wct\/2019-04-09\/TerenceStewardIIcourtesyofSteward.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption><br>Terence Steward II. Photo courtesy of Steward  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Chicagoan Terence Steward II, living with HIV &#8220;drove&#8221; how he lived his life during his twenties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8220;I was super-private, discreet, by myself, depressed, very &#8216;smoky&#8217; and mysterious,&#8221; Steward recalled. &#8220;I kept to myself. I was in the Twilight <br>Zone. Coming out of college, I had no idea how to handle myself. What I did was by trial-and-error, and day-by-day.&#8221;   Read More<\/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>For Chicagoan Terence Steward II, living with HIV &#8220;drove&#8221; how he lived his life during his twenties. &#8220;I was super-private, discreet, by&#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-20958","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\/20958","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=20958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}