{"id":5779,"date":"2012-10-25T03:33:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2015-02-18T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T10:31:10","slug":"building-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/10\/25\/building-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"building the story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>an idea has been tossing around my head for years and years and I plan to get started on it after my a&#8217;s- which is to write a singaporean story\/stories that attempts to capture what it&#8217;s like to grow up in the 1990s, to make sense of your identity amidst global forces- lgbt rights, social justice, human rights issues, &#8216;postmodernism&#8217; (whatever that is), tradition vs future, etc.<\/p>\n<p>if you had to write your story, about your own life, or of others, about the struggle for identity, balance, acceptance and happiness in singapore- what would you talk about? what would be the most gripping chapter or scene? what would be a wrench-your-heart conflict, what would be a beautiful moment worth sharing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an idea has been tossing around my head for years and years and I plan to get started on it after my a&#8217;s- which is to write a singaporean story\/stories that attempts to capture what it&#8217;s like to grow up in the 1990s, to make sense of your identity amidst&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[532,537],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-words","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-1vd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9940,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions\/9940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}