{"id":8163,"date":"2022-12-03T11:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/i-still-wince-when-i-think-about-it-10-text-messages-and-the-stories-behind-them\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:37:24","slug":"i-still-wince-when-i-think-about-it-10-text-messages-and-the-stories-behind-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/i-still-wince-when-i-think-about-it-10-text-messages-and-the-stories-behind-them\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I still wince when I think about it\u2019: 10 text messages \u2013 and the stories behind them"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s 30 years since the first SMS landed. Writers, authors and comedians share the txt msgs that changed their life<\/p>\n

It was 2007: the nation was saying goodbye to Tony Blair and the tightness of my jeans was outrageous. I was 22, fresh out of university and in a thrilling new relationship with the man who would, 11 years later, become my husband. For ages, I kept this relationship from my family, but towards the end of spring I was done with the indignity of sneaking around. I wanted to be open. I eventually told my fairly traditional Ghanaian mother that I was gay and had a boyfriend who I had been seeing for months. Let\u2019s just say that the conversation involved increasingly heated uses of the word \u201cNo\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nIt was 2007: the nation was saying goodbye to Tony Blair and the tightness of my jeans was outrageous. I was 22, fresh out of university and in a thrilling new relationship with the man who would, 11 years later, become my husband. For ages, I kept this relationship from my family, but towards the end of spring I was done with the indignity of sneaking around. I wanted to be open. I eventually told my fairly traditional Ghanaian mother that I was gay and had a boyfriend who I had been seeing for months. Let\u2019s just say that the conversation involved increasingly heated uses of the word \u201cNo\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s 30 years since the first SMS landed. Writers, authors and comedians share the txt msgs that changed their life It was 2007: the nation was saying goodbye to Tony Blair and the tightness of my jeans was outrageous. I was 22, fresh out of university and in a thrilling new relationship with the man …<\/p>\n

\u2018I still wince when I think about it\u2019: 10 text messages \u2013 and the stories behind them<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}