{"id":18215,"date":"2014-01-28T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/processedlives-as-a-writer-of-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:51:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:51:54","slug":"processedlives-as-a-writer-of-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/processedlives-as-a-writer-of-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18215 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/processedlives-as-a-writer-of-science-fiction\/attachment\/18216\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mu3l1rM2B31s9d1xqo1_640-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/processedlives.tumblr.com\/post\/62996499947\/as-a-writer-of-science-fiction-i-was-free-to\">processedlives<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;As a writer of science fiction I was free to imagine new ways of thinking about people and power, free to maneuver my characters into situations that don\u2019t exist\u2026I\u2019ve been told again and again that my characters aren\u2019t &quot;nice.&rdquo; I don\u2019t doubt it. People who must violate their long-held beliefs are rarely pleasant. I don\u2019t write about heroes; I write about people who survive and sometimes prevail.&ldquo;<br \/>&#8211; Octavia Butler quoted in Mixon, \u201cFuturist Woman\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>processedlives: &ldquo;As a writer of science fiction I was free to imagine new ways of thinking about people and power, free to maneuver my characters into situations that don\u2019t exist\u2026I\u2019ve been told again and again that my characters aren\u2019t &quot;nice.&rdquo; I don\u2019t doubt it. People who must violate their long-held beliefs are rarely pleasant. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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-18215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4JN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215","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=18215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18217,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215\/revisions\/18217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}