{"id":45,"date":"2022-03-24T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2022-04-12T22:55:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T02:55:40","slug":"luis-inoa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/luis-inoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Inoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI found it too difficult and taxing to continue to blame people for the outcome. Holding on to grudges or creating one was just not in my nature. But the weight of\u00a0 \u201cThe Decision\u201d was still lingering. Why not me? What was I lacking? I thought Vassar was a perfect fit- what now?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a tale of two stories. Lived 23 years apart. Stories about how belonging found me at moments of significant rejection.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-45 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/luis-inoa\/l-inoa-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-1-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/luis-inoa\/l-inoa-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-2-206x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-2-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-2-768x1119.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-2-703x1024.jpg 703w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-2.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 85vw, 206px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/luis-inoa\/l-inoa-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-3-300x129.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-3-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-3-768x330.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-3-1024x441.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-3-1200x516.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/luis-inoa\/l-inoa-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-4-212x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-4-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-4-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-4-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/L.-Inoa-4-1200x1698.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 85vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-45-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/Luis.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/Luis.mp3\">http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/Luis.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/Luis-Inoa-Full-Story-Transcript-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story transcript<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI found it too difficult and taxing to continue to blame people for the outcome. Holding on to grudges or creating one was just not in my nature. But the weight of\u00a0 \u201cThe Decision\u201d was still lingering. Why not me? What was I lacking? I thought Vassar was a perfect fit- what now?\u201d\u00a0 This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/luis-inoa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Luis Inoa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3736,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}