{"id":10715,"date":"2016-03-18T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-was-a-young-black-man-light-skinned-enough-so\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:16:45","slug":"i-was-a-young-black-man-light-skinned-enough-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-was-a-young-black-man-light-skinned-enough-so\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was a young black man, light-skinned enough so that four out of five people who met me, of whatever race, assumed I was white\u2026 I was a homosexual who now knew he could function heterosexually. <br \/>\nAnd I was a young writer whose early attempts had already gotten him a handful of prizes\u2026 So, I thought, you are neither black nor white. <br \/>\nYou are neither male nor female. And you are that most ambiguous of citizens, the writer. <br \/>\nThere was something at once very satisfying and very sad, placing myself at this pivotal suspension. It seemed, in the park at dawn, a kind of revelation\u2013a kind of center, formed of a play of ambiguities, from which I might move in any direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><i><b>Samuel R. Delany, The Motion Of Light In Water: <br \/>Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village<\/b><\/i><br \/> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/granosdegranada.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">granosdegranada<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a young black man, light-skinned enough so that four out of five people who met me, of whatever race, assumed I was white\u2026 I was a homosexual who now knew he could function heterosexually. And I was a young writer whose early attempts had already gotten him a handful of prizes\u2026 So, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2MP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}