{"id":2099,"date":"2015-08-23T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2015-08-21T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:25:11","slug":"the-advocates-first-transgender-staff-member-interviews-buzzfeeds-first-transgender-staff-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2099","title":{"rendered":"The Advocate&#8217;s First Transgender Staff Member Interviews BuzzFeed&#8217;s First Transgender Staff Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meredith Talusan, a Filipina-American transgender writer and more, recently joined BuzzFeed&#8217;s writing staff full-time, marking her as the first trans person to do so. In a heartening celebration of trans solidarity and firsts, Talusan was interviewed by the Advocate&#8217;s news editor Dawn Ennis, herself the first trans staff member at her respective publication. Read the five-question interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/media\/2015\/08\/18\/5-questions-buzzfeed-s-first-trans-reporter\">The Advocate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman Meredith Talusan, a Filipina-American transgender writer and more, recently joined BuzzFeed&#8217;s writing staff full-time, marking her as the first trans person to do so. In a heartening celebration of trans solidarity and firsts, Talusan was interviewed by the Advocate&#8217;s news editor Dawn Ennis, herself the first trans staff member at her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[306,144,305,307],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-dawn-ennis","tag-interview","tag-meredith-talusan","tag-trans-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","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=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}