{"id":24284,"date":"2012-02-06T03:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T03:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-i-arrived-i-didnt-know-what-to-think-but-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-06T03:58:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T03:58:04","slug":"when-i-arrived-i-didnt-know-what-to-think-but-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/when-i-arrived-i-didnt-know-what-to-think-but-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I arrived I didn\u2019t know what to think. But after I was inside the store, that stopped being important. Everything, actually, except Abercrombie\u2019s pulsing ephemera stopped being important. If you\u2019ve never been to Abercrombie, let me tell you, it definitely kills one\u2019s ability to form coherent, logical thought. No one has ever discussed matters of philosophy or the status of Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities within its confines. Everything\u2019s dark and loud and confusing. You half feel like you\u2019re playing laser tag and half like you\u2019ve bumbled onto a reshooting of \u201cEyes Wide Shut.\u201d The cultural aesthetic of the store straddles all of these notions. It\u2019s a confounding, bombastic and erotic slice of our American zeitgeist. Put another way: White people love it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/02\/04\/the_absurd_life_of_an_abercrombie_fitch_model\/\">The absurd life of an Abercrombie &amp; Fitch model &#8211; Life stories &#8211; Salon.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I arrived I didn\u2019t know what to think. But after I was inside the store, that stopped being important. Everything, actually, except Abercrombie\u2019s pulsing ephemera stopped being important. If you\u2019ve never been to Abercrombie, let me tell you, it definitely kills one\u2019s ability to form coherent, logical thought. No one has ever discussed matters [&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-24284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6jG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284","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=24284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}