{"id":2,"date":"2011-02-20T02:42:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T02:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2011-05-03T05:45:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T05:45:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Ryan James de Martinez y Mitchell, a history \/ sci-fi geek,  Mandarin-Spanish-Japanese-French-English creole mumbler, and student at  Harvard Law School.\u00a0 I intend to use this blog for Symbolist musings, newsings, and  rambly mumblings about the human capacity for play.\u00a0 Playing with language, playing with ideas, playing with body parts.<\/p>\n<p>Why &#8220;Right Facing Triangle&#8221; ?\u00a0 Because this now-omnipresent symbol for play best\u00a0 represents the infinite capacity for forward human progress, driven  simply by thymos&#8211;the passionate spirit of experimentation.\u00a0 No really!\u00a0  It does represent that.\u00a0 Culture isn&#8217;t made, it&#8217;s played.<\/p>\n<p>Anywhich, mostly this pro-play propaganda will take the form of weird poetry and  short stories.\u00a0 Like them?\u00a0 Send me money.\u00a0 Or fame, or women.\u00a0 Or money  with famous women printed on it.\u00a0 (As of this writing, the pound is  pretty strong against the dollar).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/files\/2011\/02\/Screen-shot-2011-05-03-at-1.19.58-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/files\/2011\/02\/Screen-shot-2011-05-03-at-1.19.58-AM-297x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/files\/2011\/02\/Screen-shot-2011-05-03-at-1.19.58-AM-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/files\/2011\/02\/Screen-shot-2011-05-03-at-1.19.58-AM.png 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; R.J.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Ryan James de Martinez y Mitchell, a history \/ sci-fi geek, Mandarin-Spanish-Japanese-French-English creole mumbler, and student at Harvard Law School.\u00a0 I intend to use this blog for Symbolist musings, newsings, and rambly mumblings about the human capacity for play.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2551,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ryanmartinezmitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}