{"id":24301,"date":"2012-02-04T17:26:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-tell-them-i-write-this-shit-for-you-but-a-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-04T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T17:26:48","slug":"i-tell-them-i-write-this-shit-for-you-but-a-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-tell-them-i-write-this-shit-for-you-but-a-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I tell them, \u201cI write this shit for you!\u201d But a lot of writers won\u2019t admit to that, a lot of artists won\u2019t admit to that. They\u2019ll get artistic, or pretentious, or, you know, talk about some \u201chigher calling.\u201d The fact is, I want to move rooms full of people. I want to move someone sitting alone under a reading lamp. I want to move someone sitting on a beach. I want to make them laugh and cry. I want them to see me and come running up to me and tell me how the books made them feel. I love that!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Sherman Alexie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/issues\/201202\/?read=interview_alexie_case\">in conversation with Neko Case<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/\">austinkleon<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tell them, \u201cI write this shit for you!\u201d But a lot of writers won\u2019t admit to that, a lot of artists won\u2019t admit to that. They\u2019ll get artistic, or pretentious, or, you know, talk about some \u201chigher calling.\u201d The fact is, I want to move rooms full of people. I want to move someone [&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-24301","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-6jX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301","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=24301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}