{"id":38000,"date":"2011-09-06T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/around-the-year-2000-i-transformed-from-a\/"},"modified":"2011-09-06T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:37:07","slug":"around-the-year-2000-i-transformed-from-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/around-the-year-2000-i-transformed-from-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Around the year 2000, I transformed from a writerly guy who took a lot of notes into a writerly guy who took a lot of notes, travelled a lot, and also carried lots of gadgets. My old-school jeans just couldn\u2019t handle my digitized commensal devices. The camera, the mobile, the city maps, the keys, pens, notebooks; when you live on the road that \u201cdaily carry\u201d intensifies. <\/p>\n<p>Tacticals, in the meantime, left the legs of the mountaineering community, and, thanks to certain members of the Colorado FBI, became the favorite pants of federal cops. I\u2019m by no means a cop, but I was never a miner or a mountaineer, either. <\/p>\n<p>The daily clothing needs of street cops are in fact pretty close to the daily clothing needs of street-wandering journalists with a big yen for tech devices. Cops haul around a lot of specialized belt gear, they\u2019re in and out of cars, bikes, whatever, they\u2019re commonly reacting to sudden opportunities, they alternate bursts of action with a lot of bureaucratic somnolence and the filling-out of forms\u2026 Cops are also intimidating tough-guys who project an \u2018atmosphere of deterrence,\u2019 but that machismo doesn\u2019t come out of their pants. It comes out of their hats, badges, sunglasses, pistols and clubs. I don\u2019t wear those. I wear bifocals and Missoni ties. <\/p>\n<p>And I wear cop pants. For years now. Nobody minds, comments, or even notices. Since I need my gadgets at hand every day, I rarely wear anything else. I\u2019ve tried a variety of cop pants, created by different cop suppliers. Most are, to tell the truth, not as well-thought-through as 5.11 Tactical garments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/beyond_the_beyond\/2011\/09\/the-new-pants-revue\/\">The New Pants Revue | Beyond The Beyond<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the year 2000, I transformed from a writerly guy who took a lot of notes into a writerly guy who took a lot of notes, travelled a lot, and also carried lots of gadgets. My old-school jeans just couldn\u2019t handle my digitized commensal devices. The camera, the mobile, the city maps, the keys, pens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":[],"tags":[1539,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-38000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","5":"hentry","6":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","8":"post_format-post-format-quote"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9SU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000","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=38000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}