{"id":2107,"date":"2024-02-04T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/michael-gunning-swimmer-on-how-lgbt-sportspeople-make-powerful-role-models-and-im-proud-to-be-one-swimming-news-sky-sports\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T07:37:00","slug":"michael-gunning-swimmer-on-how-lgbt-sportspeople-make-powerful-role-models-and-im-proud-to-be-one-swimming-news-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/michael-gunning-swimmer-on-how-lgbt-sportspeople-make-powerful-role-models-and-im-proud-to-be-one-swimming-news-sky-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Gunning: Swimmer on how LGBT+ sportspeople make powerful role models and I&#8217;m proud to be one | Swimming News | Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former swimmer Michael Gunning is Jamaica&#8217;s first openly gay athlete; he competed at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships but retired from competitive swimming in 2022; he talks through being a role model for other people as part of LGBT+ History Month Wednesday 31 January 2024 15:22, UK As part of LGBT+ History Month, double<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/more-sports\/swimming\/news\/29177\/13059546\/michael-gunning-swimmer-on-how-lgbt-sportspeople-make-powerful-role-models-and-im-proud-to-be-one\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former swimmer Michael Gunning is Jamaica&#8217;s first openly gay athlete; he competed at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships but retired from competitive swimming in 2022; he talks through being a role model for other people as part of LGBT+ History Month Wednesday 31 January 2024 15:22, UK As part of LGBT+ History Month, doubleRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}