{"id":23766,"date":"2012-05-03T00:02:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T00:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/marathonpacks-i-thought-oh-ill-be-a\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T00:02:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T00:02:24","slug":"marathonpacks-i-thought-oh-ill-be-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/marathonpacks-i-thought-oh-ill-be-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/marathonpacks.tumblr.com\/post\/22263629417\/i-thought-oh-ill-be-a-professor-i-had-an\">marathonpacks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI thought, \u2018Oh I\u2019ll be a professor.\u2019 I had an independent major in American Studies, but my main milieu was the political science department and this political theory groupuscle inside of it \u2014 a group of professors and students. When I went to graduate school I had the same professors and the same students, and it was just like crossing an invisible, meaningless line. Except that it was enormously meaningful, because the professors who thought when they were teaching undergraduates that their role was to inspire people, now they thought, \u2018We\u2019re here to train people as academics.\u2019 It was the most deadly experience imaginable. I started writing then because I was bored to death. I had to do something to keep my mind alive. I fell into writing as a hobby. But I had known Jann Wenner since we were freshmen, and we had fallen out of touch since then, but we knew each other well enough. When Rolling Stone started, I started writing for them. And then I got a call from Jann saying, \u2018I hear you\u2019re complaining about the record review section.\u2019 And I said, \u2018Yes, everybody\u2019s just writing about lyrics and reviewing it as if it was just folk music, and it\u2019s totally wrong.\u2019 And he said, \u2018If you think it\u2019s so terrible, why don\u2019t you edit it?\u2019 So I\u2019m at graduate school but I\u2019m also an editor at Rolling Stone. And that\u2019s taking up more and more time. It becomes more compelling and interesting. I realized, \u2018There\u2019s a field of action there.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus <a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article.php?type&amp;id=591&amp;fulltext=1&amp;media\" target=\"_blank\">for the <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article.php?type&amp;id=591&amp;fulltext=1&amp;media\" target=\"_blank\">LA Review of Books<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>marathonpacks: \u201cI thought, \u2018Oh I\u2019ll be a professor.\u2019 I had an independent major in American Studies, but my main milieu was the political science department and this political theory groupuscle inside of it \u2014 a group of professors and students. When I went to graduate school I had the same professors and the same students, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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-23766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23766","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=23766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}