{"id":143,"date":"2000-05-14T00:36:57","date_gmt":"2000-05-14T00:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/05\/14\/the_most_homoer\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T16:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:19:04","slug":"the_most_homoer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/05\/14\/the_most_homoer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Homoerotic of All Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mmmmmmm, oily Turks.<\/strong> A short while back, I read a couple of news articles (no, I\u2019m not going to look for them to give you a link) about a minor uproar over this traditional Turkish event where all these guys dressed in leather breaches, covered themselves in oil, and wrestled each other. Yes, that\u2019s right: Turkish leather oil wrestling. Apparently, the Turks were a bit upset about foreigners seeing homoerotic connotations in this. They claimed that there are no homosexuals in Turkey. Yeah right, just like there are none in Latin America. Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grecco.com\/lawrencegreccopa.html\"  title=\"Lawrence Grecco photography\">look at some pictures<\/a> and decide for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mmmmmmm, oily Turks. A short while back, I read a couple of news articles (no, I\u2019m not going to look for them to give you a link) about a minor uproar over this traditional Turkish event where all these guys dressed in leather breaches, covered themselves in oil, and wrestled each other. Yes, that\u2019s right: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/05\/14\/the_most_homoer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Most Homoerotic of All Wrestling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultragay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70892,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/70892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}