{"id":18671,"date":"2013-12-29T04:37:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T04:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-dont-think-you-can-last-by-meeting-the-2\/"},"modified":"2013-12-29T04:37:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T04:37:36","slug":"i-dont-think-you-can-last-by-meeting-the-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-dont-think-you-can-last-by-meeting-the-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t think you can last by meeting the <br \/>\ncontemporary public taste, the taste from the last <br \/>\nquarterly report.  I don\u2019t think you can last by following <br \/>\ndemographics and carefully meeting expectations.  I don\u2019t <br \/>\nknow many works of art that last that are condescending.  <br \/>\nI don\u2019t know many works of art that last that are <br \/>\ndeliberately stupid.  You may be a geek, you may have geek <br \/>\nwritten all over you; you should aim to be one geek <br \/>\nthey\u2019ll never forget.  Don\u2019t aim to be civilized.  Don\u2019t <br \/>\nhope that straight people will keep you on as some kind of <br \/>\npet.  To hell with them; they put you here.  You should <br \/>\nfully realize what society has made of you and take a <br \/>\nterrible revenge.  Get weird.  Get way weird.  Get <br \/>\ndangerously weird.  Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird <br \/>\nand don\u2019t do it halfway, put every ounce of horsepower you <br \/>\nhave behind it.  Have the artistic *courage* to recognize <br \/>\nyour own significance in culture!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Bruce Sterling (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ce-douglas.tumblr.com\/\">ce-douglas<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t think you can last by meeting the contemporary public taste, the taste from the last quarterly report. I don\u2019t think you can last by following demographics and carefully meeting expectations. I don\u2019t know many works of art that last that are condescending. I don\u2019t know many works of art that last that are [&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":[547,546],"class_list":["post-18671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-the-weird-turn-pro","tag-when-the-going-gets-weird","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4R9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671","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=18671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}