{"id":19919,"date":"2013-10-15T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/this-is-what-myths-do-they-tell-us-how-things\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T14:28:23","slug":"this-is-what-myths-do-they-tell-us-how-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/this-is-what-myths-do-they-tell-us-how-things\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is what myths do: they tell us how things came to be. And all too often the myth-making process is the only way people on the margins can \u201cspeak themselves\u201d into existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/essay\/aliens\">Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah<\/a> at <em>Los Angles Review of Books<\/em>.\u00a0De origine actibusque aequationis<\/h4>\n<h3>Rachel Jeantel, Rammellzee, Basquiat, and the Art of Being an Equation<\/h3>\n<p>Via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kitabet\">Kitabet<\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/features\/sunday-reading-31\/\">Sunday Reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what myths do: they tell us how things came to be. And all too often the myth-making process is the only way people on the margins can \u201cspeak themselves\u201d into existence. Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah at Los Angles Review of Books.\u00a0De origine actibusque aequationis Rachel Jeantel, Rammellzee, Basquiat, and the Art of Being an [&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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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-19919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19919","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=19919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}