{"id":208938,"date":"2026-02-05T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208938"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:23:43","slug":"how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208938","title":{"rendered":"How Ottawa became the unlikely star of a gay hockey romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 is super sexy, but it is also a playfully subversive alternate reality commenting on politics, the culture of hockey \u2014 and the city of Ottawa&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/ottawa-heated-rivalry\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 is super sexy, but it is also a playfully subversive alternate reality commenting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance.jpeg",1000,750,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance-300x225.jpeg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance-768x576.jpeg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance.jpeg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance.jpeg",1000,750,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance.jpeg",1000,750,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance.jpeg",1000,750,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208938-how-ottawa-became-the-unlikely-star-of-a-gay-hockey-romance-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}