{"id":25186,"date":"2020-10-15T18:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=25186"},"modified":"2020-10-15T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:35:13","slug":"gareth-thomas-reveals-the-insulting-question-you-should-never-ever-ask-someone-about-their-hiv-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/15\/gareth-thomas-reveals-the-insulting-question-you-should-never-ever-ask-someone-about-their-hiv-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Thomas reveals the insulting question you should never, ever ask someone about their HIV status"},"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=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21889\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garret-Thomas-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garret-Thomas-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garret-Thomas-770x462.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garret-Thomas-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garret-Thomas.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2019\/09\/15\/rugby-star-gareth-thomas-comes-out-hiv-positive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">His hand forced by people threatening to out his HIV status<\/a>, Thomas decided to use this opportunity to tackle the stigma facing those living with, and affected by, HIV. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2020\/10\/15\/gareth-thomas-tackle-hiv-diagnosis-wales-rugby-terrence-higgins-trust-undetectable\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29\">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>His hand forced by people threatening to out his HIV status, Thomas decided to use this opportunity to tackle the stigma facing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hiv-2"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garret-Thomas.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25186","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=25186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25187,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25186\/revisions\/25187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}