{"id":1911,"date":"2008-03-05T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2008-03-05T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T19:22:00","slug":"hang-in-there-patrick-swayze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memories\/hang-in-there-patrick-swayze\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang in there, Patrick Swayze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supposedly Patrick Swayze is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywood.com\/news\/Mystery_Surrounds_Swayze_Cancer_Battle_\/5095954\" target=\"_blank\">on the verge of dying of pancreatic cancer<\/a>. :(<\/p>\n<p>When most people think of Patrick Swayze, they think of him possessing Whoopi Goldberg, or maybe doing pelvic thrusts alongside Chris Farley. Not me. <\/p>\n<p>I think of the man who ensured my heterosexuality. <\/p>\n<p>There was one summer in the  late &#8217;80s when <i>Dirty Dancing<\/i> had just gone from being in the theater to being on HBO, and my sister managed to record it onto a VHS tape. We, along with Josh and Mandy, the two neighbor kids my sister babysat that summer, watched that movie at least once a day, every day. <i>Dirty Dancing<\/i> was listed on our daily schedule, just like lunch and chores. <\/p>\n<p>And every time we&#8217;d watch the movie, we&#8217;d go absolutely batshit over the part where Johnny Castle gets out of the bed and you can see his butt for, like, two seconds. We&#8217;d pause the tape and giggle like maniacs. <\/p>\n<p>How Josh grew up to be straight after that summer, I&#8217;ll never know. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/2313162664\/\" title=\"babysitting by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3097\/2313162664_b3586cf057.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" alt=\"babysitting\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supposedly Patrick Swayze is on the verge of dying of pancreatic cancer. :( When most people think of Patrick Swayze, they think of him possessing Whoopi Goldberg, or maybe doing pelvic thrusts alongside Chris Farley. Not me. I think of the man who ensured my heterosexuality. There was one summer in the late &#8217;80s when Dirty Dancing had just gone from being in the theater to being on HBO, and my sister managed to record&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-uP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}