{"id":16346,"date":"2014-06-28T02:26:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T02:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/storytelling-is-a-political-act-its-making-sense\/"},"modified":"2014-06-28T02:26:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T02:26:05","slug":"storytelling-is-a-political-act-its-making-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/storytelling-is-a-political-act-its-making-sense\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Storytelling is a political act. It\u2019s making sense of the world and ourselves, and like every other kind of sense-making, it\u2019s as political as it is personal and vice-versa. There is no distinction to be made between the political and the personal. Writing of any kind is political. It\u2019s claimsmaking regarding reality and how to interpret it. Because whenever we\u2019re faced with these things, we\u2019re faced with fundamental truths regarding how creation makes and unmakes the world, regarding whose voices are amplified and whose are lost, between who gets to speak and who is literally silenced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'> sunny moraine in <a href=\"http:\/\/sunnymoraine.com\/2014\/04\/28\/the-politics-have-always-been-there-you-just-refuse-to-see-them\/\">&lsquo;the politics have always been there&rsquo;<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/swanjolras.tumblr.com\/\">swanjolras<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storytelling is a political act. It\u2019s making sense of the world and ourselves, and like every other kind of sense-making, it\u2019s as political as it is personal and vice-versa. There is no distinction to be made between the political and the personal. Writing of any kind is political. It\u2019s claimsmaking regarding reality and how to [&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-16346","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-4fE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346","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=16346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}