{"id":220,"date":"2007-02-15T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/?p=220"},"modified":"2007-02-15T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:26:52","slug":"testing-for-nasty-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/220","title":{"rendered":"Testing for Nasty Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really very sexually active but I agree that if you&#8217;re not in a monogamous relationship it&#8217;s a good idea to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases every now and then.  Since I have a few routine health tests coming up (just a check up), I went over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagaycenter.org\/site\/c.mvI4IhNZJwE\/b.879315\/k.D7A3\/Homepage.htm\">L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center<\/a> and got a full work-up of tests run for STDs, all for free.   They provide some really excellent services, and you don&#8217;t even have to be gay or trans or whatever to use them.  When I first moved to L.A. a few years ago and was pretty depressed, I even got a therapist there for about eight months at a fraction of what it would cost to see a shrink in private practice.  <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve gotten really fast with the HIV test.  They just swab the inside of your mouth and in twenty minutes you have the result: negative (which I had no reason not to expect).  You have to wait five days for the results of the blood tests for those good ol&#8217; fashioned diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis.  It&#8217;s been at least two months since I&#8217;ve done anything even remotely risky, so unless you can catch something from your computer (or your right hand) everything should be A-OK.  I&#8217;m kind of into tests and statistics, though, so I sort of enjoy the process and reading those little pamphlets they give you.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not really very sexually active but I agree that if you&#8217;re not in a monogamous relationship it&#8217;s a good idea to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases every now and then. Since I have a few routine health tests coming up (just a check up), I went over to the L.A. Gay and Lesbian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Testing for Nasty Things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sandra-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}