{"id":13848,"date":"2015-03-08T20:27:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T20:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/you-guys-know-about-vampires-you-know-vampires\/"},"modified":"2015-03-08T20:27:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T20:27:16","slug":"you-guys-know-about-vampires-you-know-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/you-guys-know-about-vampires-you-know-vampires\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You guys know about vampires? \u2026 You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There\u2019s this idea that monsters don\u2019t have reflections in a mirror. And what I\u2019ve always thought isn\u2019t that monsters don\u2019t have reflections in a mirror. It\u2019s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn\u2019t see myself reflected at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.junotdiaz.com\/\">Junot D\u00edaz<\/a> on race and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/ledgerlive\/index.ssf\/2009\/10\/junot_diazs_new_jersey.html\">representation in media<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/twelvemeancats.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">twelvemeancats<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You guys know about vampires? \u2026 You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There\u2019s this idea that monsters don\u2019t have reflections in a mirror. And what I\u2019ve always thought isn\u2019t that monsters don\u2019t have reflections in a mirror. It\u2019s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13848","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-3Bm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848","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=13848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}