{"id":2483,"date":"2009-11-16T21:02:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2009-11-16T21:02:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T21:02:23","slug":"coming_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere got a case of the vapors yesterday when longtime blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/belledejour-uk.blogspot.com\/\">Belle de Jour<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article6917495.ece\">voluntarily relinquished her anonymity<\/a> and revealed herself to be both pretty and geeky,complete with a Ph.D. in informatics, epidemiology, and forensic science. Belle (a.k.a Brooke Magnanti) was one of the first bloggers to achieve celebrity status based purely on the content of her blog postings (in Belle&#8217;s case, she blogged about her experiences as a London escort). She parlayed her blog&#8217;s popularity into book and television deals, thus earning the envy and ire of all us amateurs pecking away at our keyboards as visions of literary contracts danced before our eyes. <\/p>\n<p>Some might argue that Magnanti, with her middle-class background and advanced education, isn&#8217;t typical of the women who earn a living as sex workers. They may be right. It&#8217;s even possible that she&#8217;s perpetuating a long con on a public who subconsciously wants to accept commercial sex as long as it&#8217;s nonthreateningly packaged as an attractive and seemingly well-adjusted woman with an English accent and a completed dissertation. But she might just be someone who blogged about an interesting and unusual time in her life and now wants to reclaim her identity. I hope it works out for her. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere got a case of the vapors yesterday when longtime blogger Belle de Jour voluntarily relinquished her anonymity and revealed herself to be both pretty and geeky,complete with a Ph.D. in informatics, epidemiology, and forensic science. Belle (a.k.a Brooke Magnanti) was one of the first bloggers to achieve celebrity status based purely on the <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2483' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-E3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}