{"id":4033,"date":"2011-08-11T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2015-03-22T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T19:45:04","slug":"the-brief-wondrous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/the-brief-wondrous\/","title":{"rendered":"the brief wondrous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junot Diaz made me cry.  Twice.  Not his writing . Because, I&#8217;ve gotta be honest.  I haven&#8217;t read any of it yet.  (Not yet.) But his voice.  I have absolutely zero in common with the man.  Our backgrounds are not at all similar.  Our lives, current, even less so.  But hearing him speak really lit a fire under me.  It was one of those <em>&#8216;remember this moment&#8217;<\/em> moments.   And I shared it with Mal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buffy-Mal-Junot-Diaz1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buffy-Mal-Junot-Diaz1.jpg\" alt=\"Buffy-Mal-Junot-Diaz\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buffy-Mal-Junot-Diaz1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Buffy-Mal-Junot-Diaz1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junot Diaz made me cry. Twice. Not his writing . Because, I&#8217;ve gotta be honest. I haven&#8217;t read any of it yet. (Not yet.) But his voice. I have absolutely zero in common with the man. Our backgrounds are not at all similar. Our lives, current, even less so. But hearing him speak really lit<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[104,46],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hum-drum","tag-junot-diaz","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5762,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions\/5762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}