{"id":24723,"date":"2011-11-03T15:08:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-didnt-have-the-emotional-range-i-could-only\/"},"modified":"2011-11-03T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:08:47","slug":"i-didnt-have-the-emotional-range-i-could-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-didnt-have-the-emotional-range-i-could-only\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I didn\u2019t have the emotional range. I could only create characters who have \u00adreally, really super highs and super lows\u2014no middle. It\u2019s taken me eight books to get to a point where the characters can have recognizably complex or ambiguous relationships with other characters. In Neuromancer, the whole range of social possibility when they meet is, Shall we have sex, or shall I kill you? Or you know, Let\u2019s go rob a Chinese corporation\u2014cool!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6089\/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson\">Paris Review &#8211; The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson<\/a> on the evolution &ndash; or growth &ndash; of his artistic skill.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t have the emotional range. I could only create characters who have \u00adreally, really super highs and super lows\u2014no middle. It\u2019s taken me eight books to get to a point where the characters can have recognizably complex or ambiguous relationships with other characters. In Neuromancer, the whole range of social possibility when they meet [&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-24723","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-6qL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723","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=24723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}