{"id":25242,"date":"2011-05-04T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-his-mother-divorced-his-father-she-married\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:00:06","slug":"after-his-mother-divorced-his-father-she-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-his-mother-divorced-his-father-she-married\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After his mother divorced his father, she married a very different sort of man, surf pioneer Gard Chapin, a roughneck rebel who never fit into polite society. If Miki\u2019s biological father connected him to Hollywood, stepfather Chapin\u2019s obsession with the development of surfboards brought the young Miki into the high-tech world of California\u2019s industrial design, including visits to Charles and Ray Eames\u2019s studio. The legacy of Miki\u2019s two patriarchs, the Hungarian hussar and the surfing redneck, determined the course of his life. Miki might have been born to ride waves, but he never shared the sunny obliviousness of postwar California teens. Instead, along with his boards and wax, he brought European nihilism to the beach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/issues\/200806\/?read=article_lunenfeld\">The Believer &#8211; Gidget on the Couch<\/a>\u00a0(found thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/essayist.tumblr.com\">essayist.tumblr.com<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his mother divorced his father, she married a very different sort of man, surf pioneer Gard Chapin, a roughneck rebel who never fit into polite society. If Miki\u2019s biological father connected him to Hollywood, stepfather Chapin\u2019s obsession with the development of surfboards brought the young Miki into the high-tech world of California\u2019s industrial design, [&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-25242","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-6z8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242","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=25242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}