{"id":228,"date":"2015-06-21T20:06:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/21\/call-me-daddy-playing-son-to-my-fatherless\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:12","slug":"call-me-daddy-playing-son-to-my-fatherless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/06\/21\/call-me-daddy-playing-son-to-my-fatherless\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Daddy: Playing Son to My Fatherless Boyfriend | VICE | United States"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

He picks me up from the train station and we go to an Indian restaurant
\n near his apartment. We sit next to a large Indian family. I imagine that
\n they’re all judging me, and it stings. They probably came here from
\n India to make better lives for their children. And look what they ended
\n up sitting next to: some nightmare vision of what America can do to your
\n kids, no matter how hard they study. When your boys come to America,
\n they’ll turn into dimpled twinks who will escape their ivory towers to
\n go on dates with sugar daddies twice their age.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Call Me Daddy: Playing Son to My Fatherless Boyfriend | VICE | United States<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He picks me up from the train station and we go to an Indian restaurant near his apartment. We sit next to a large Indian family. I imagine that they’re all judging me, and it stings. 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