{"id":14741,"date":"2014-12-19T18:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T18:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-know-exactly-where-i-was-sitting-on-a-tattered\/"},"modified":"2014-12-19T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T18:31:29","slug":"i-know-exactly-where-i-was-sitting-on-a-tattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-know-exactly-where-i-was-sitting-on-a-tattered\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I know exactly where I was: sitting on a tattered couch in the living room of my rental house in Austin, Texas, 1989. The ninth issue of the experimental comics magazine RAW, edited by Art Spiegelman and Fran\u00e7oise Mouly, had been released, and I\u2019d bought it at a local comics shop and brought it home to read, safe from the scrutiny of the University of Texas fine arts department. For a young student of painting with ambitions to tell serious comic-strip stories, the annual appearance of the magazine in which Spiegelman\u2019s \u201cMaus\u201d was being serialised was a genuine event \u2013 like a gallery show, but exploring a medium that at that time had yet to be afforded aesthetic legitimacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/dec\/17\/chris-ware-here-richard-mcguire-review-graphic-novel\">Chris Ware on <i>Here<\/i> by Richard McGuire \u2013 a game-changing graphic novel | Books | The Guardian<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know exactly where I was: sitting on a tattered couch in the living room of my rental house in Austin, Texas, 1989. The ninth issue of the experimental comics magazine RAW, edited by Art Spiegelman and Fran\u00e7oise Mouly, had been released, and I\u2019d bought it at a local comics shop and brought it home [&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-14741","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-3PL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741","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=14741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}