{"id":11516,"date":"2016-06-17T21:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T21:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=11516"},"modified":"2016-06-17T21:49:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T21:49:05","slug":"transfigured-in-the-disco-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/17\/transfigured-in-the-disco-light\/","title":{"rendered":"transfigured in the disco light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from justin torres&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/in-praise-of-latin-night-at-the-queer-club\/2016\/06\/13\/e841867e-317b-11e6-95c0-2a6873031302_story.html\">&#8220;In praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Outside, tomorrow, hangovers, regrets, the grind. Outside, tomorrow, the struggle to effect change. But inside, tonight, none of that matters. Inside, tonight, the only imperative is to love. Lap the bar, out for a smoke, back inside, the ammonia and sweat and the floor slightly tacky, another drink, the imperative is to get loose, get down, find religion, lose it, find your hips locked into another\u2019s, break, dance on your own for a while \u2014 but you didn\u2019t come here to be a nun \u2014 find your lips pressed against another\u2019s, break, find your friends, dance. The only imperative is to be transformed, transfigured in the disco light. To lighten, loosen, see yourself reflected in the beauty of others. You didn\u2019t come here to be a martyr, you came to live, papi. To live, mamacita. To live, hijos. To live, mariposas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from justin torres&#8217; &#8220;In praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club&#8221;: Outside, tomorrow, hangovers, regrets, the grind. Outside, tomorrow, the struggle to effect change. But inside, tonight, none of that matters. Inside, tonight, the only imperative is to love. Lap the bar, out for a smoke, back inside, the ammonia and sweat and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11517,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516\/revisions\/11517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}