{"id":8,"date":"2007-10-20T21:36:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/dumbledore-is-gay\/"},"modified":"2007-10-21T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T00:35:07","slug":"dumbledore-is-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/dumbledore-is-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbledore is gay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>NEW YORK (AP)<\/strong> &#8212; Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.<br \/>\nDumbledore, played by Michael Gambon, was in love with his male rival, the author of Harry Potter books says. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall. After reading briefly from the final book, &#8220;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,&#8221; she took questions from audience members.<\/p>\n<p>Full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/10\/20\/harry.potter.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>10\/21 update &#8211; follow up story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21407911\/\">msnbc.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}