{"id":155,"date":"2017-10-05T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/el-pato-feo\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:28:00","slug":"el-pato-feo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/el-pato-feo\/","title":{"rendered":"El Pato Feo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At 13 years old I still watched Silly Symphonies and liked them overall except for one. It started a plucky little duck who had lost his way and tried to find love in wrong places. Upon his saddest moment he looked at his reflection on rippling water and the distortion cause his image to shift and thwart. He realized then why he had been rejected by others and didn&#8217;t deserve to play with the cute yellow ducklings sliding off momma&#8217;s back. I didn&#8217;t like that moment because it reminded me of me me and what the mirror showed. I had an odd homemade haircut, too many spots on my chin\/nose\/forehead, my nose was too long and I had an awkward smile. I didn&#8217;t like looking at my self too much in those early teen years and it would take some time before I came to peace with the face I&#8217;d be allotted.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I take solace knowing that the little silly duck found his parents eventually and they seemed to love him no matter what.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 13 years old I still watched Silly Symphonies and liked them overall except for one. It started a plucky little duck who had lost his way and tried to find love in wrong places. Upon his saddest moment he looked at his reflection on rippling water and the distortion cause his image to shift &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/el-pato-feo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;El Pato Feo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508,507,191,509],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}