{"id":16549,"date":"2014-06-08T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-audience-i-developed-in-my-minds-eye-was-an\/"},"modified":"2014-06-08T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T16:33:30","slug":"the-audience-i-developed-in-my-minds-eye-was-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-audience-i-developed-in-my-minds-eye-was-an\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The audience I developed in my mind\u2019s eye was an audience of black children, as though I was talking to my own children. Something about writing for children imposed an absolute truth in my effort. I thought that was the best way for me to put the truth out there without any compromise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/03\/an-absolute-truth-on-writing-a-life-of-coltrane\/\">Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins<\/a> quoted in an article by Sam Stephenson at Paris Review.\u00a0An Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/\">3 Quarks Daily<\/a><\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The audience I developed in my mind\u2019s eye was an audience of black children, as though I was talking to my own children. Something about writing for children imposed an absolute truth in my effort. I thought that was the best way for me to put the truth out there without any compromise. Cuthbert Ormond [&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-16549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4iV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549","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=16549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}