{"id":14602,"date":"2015-01-20T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/all-social-change-is-speculative-fiction-because\/"},"modified":"2015-01-20T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:30:31","slug":"all-social-change-is-speculative-fiction-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/all-social-change-is-speculative-fiction-because\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All social change is speculative fiction because we\u2019ve never seen a world without poverty, never seen a world with total equality, never seen a world without prisons\u2026therefore activism IS speculative fiction, it\u2019s visionary fiction because we are writing a world we\u2019ve never seen but a world we\u2019d like to live in. It\u2019s hard and unapologetic but it\u2019s hopeful because it can cause us to move; it wakes up and shows us that change is possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'> a quote from AN EVENING WITH OCTAVIA\u2019S (Butler) BROOD, as summarized by author <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmithcrystalconnor.blogspot.com\/\">Crystal Connor <\/a>(via Balogun Ojetade, <a href=\"http:\/\/blackspeculativefiction.tumblr.com\/\">blackspeculativefiction<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All social change is speculative fiction because we\u2019ve never seen a world without poverty, never seen a world with total equality, never seen a world without prisons\u2026therefore activism IS speculative fiction, it\u2019s visionary fiction because we are writing a world we\u2019ve never seen but a world we\u2019d like to live in. It\u2019s hard and unapologetic [&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-14602","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-3Nw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602","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=14602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}