{"id":1818,"date":"2015-04-19T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2015-04-18T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T20:26:52","slug":"mortal-kombat-x-features-series-first-gay-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1818","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat X features series first gay character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mortal Kombat X?<\/em>introduces the character of Kung Jin, a former thief and now Shaolin monk and member of the Special Forces Unit. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/04\/15\/mortal-kombat-introduces-first-gay-character\/\">PinkNews:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through a series of flashbacks, gamers will get to see new character Kung Jin explore his ?sexuality as he fights with several others.<\/p>\n<p>When?fan favourite?character Raiden tells Kung Jin to join the Shaolin monks, he replies: ?I can?t? They won?t accept.?<\/p>\n<p>Raiden responds: ?They care only of what is in your heart, not whom your heart desires.?<\/p>\n<p>Mortal Kombat X?s cinematic director Dominic Ciancialo confirmed the news on twitter, while responding to fans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Mortal Kombat X?introduces the character of Kung Jin, a former thief and now Shaolin monk and member of the Special Forces Unit. Via PinkNews: Through a series of flashbacks, gamers will get to see new character Kung Jin explore his ?sexuality as he fights with several others. When?fan favourite?character Raiden tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}