{"id":51591,"date":"2018-07-28T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/28\/roisin-murphy-realising-id-become-a-gay-icon-felt-like-home\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T13:00:31","slug":"roisin-murphy-realising-id-become-a-gay-icon-felt-like-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=51591","title":{"rendered":"R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy: \u2018Realising I\u2019d become a gay icon felt like home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singer, 45, on sobriety, motherhood, not being cool or famous and blagging it at Irish dancingWe were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I\u2019d get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The teachers didn\u2019t like me either. We left Ireland for Manchester when I was 12, and I was happy to go.My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland, that we couldn\u2019t afford to heat. My father had a business fitting bar furniture and my mother is an antiques dealer. One night my father woke me up because he\u2019d come home with a horse. Two days later I asked my mother where it was and she said it had run away. She\u2019d sold it. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/jul\/28\/roisin-murphy-realising-id-become-a-gay-icon-felt-like-home\" target=\"_blank\">R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy: \u2018Realising I\u2019d become a gay icon felt like home\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer, 45, on sobriety, motherhood, not being cool or famous and blagging it at Irish dancingWe were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I\u2019d get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}