{"id":2695,"date":"2017-12-09T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2025-02-13T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:12:21","slug":"i-want-people-to-know-they-can-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/i-want-people-to-know-they-can-be-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"I want people to know they can be happy, and they can change the world&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>By Munira Alimire<br>\n<\/b>Arts and Entertainment Editor<br>\nMunira.Alimire1651@mb.rctc.edu<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11764\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11764\" class=\"wp-image-11764 \" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ari-Bailey-RCTC-1066x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Ari Bailey\" width=\"220\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ari-Bailey-RCTC-1066x1280.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ari-Bailey-RCTC-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ari-Bailey-RCTC-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ari-Bailey-RCTC-1279x1536.jpg 1279w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ari-Bailey-RCTC.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ari Bailey<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cI\u2019ve been writing mostly fiction since I was quite young,\u201d said creative writer and RCTC student Ari Bailey. \u201cCurrently, I write urban fantasy, but I love any fiction that\u2019s toeing the line between being realistic and unrealistic. I like to write short pieces, and I hope to one day finish writing a novel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Bailey, a member of the Creative Writing Club, presented a short story during their reading event, \u201cPieces of Our Lives.\u201d She explained that she creates art because she has a need to share stories. She wants to make her readers to feel the way she does when she reads Stephen King, Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">She also wants to create stronger female characters, as she\u2019s tired of a world where she cannot see people like herself represented in writing. As Bailey identifies as a bisexual gender-fluid female atheist, she wants to represent the community she comes from, so she writes stories that are relatable to people who don\u2019t fit into the status quo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cMost of my characters are underdogs of one form or another,\u201d she said. \u201cI want people who don\u2019t have institutional power to know they can be happy, and they can change the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Bailey would love to make a career out of her writing, which would make her 10-year-old self very proud. She knows that in Rochester, it\u2019s easier to make a living by being in a medical or business field, but that doesn\u2019t deter her. She plans to continue writing for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Munira Alimire Arts and Entertainment Editor Munira.Alimire1651@mb.rctc.edu \u201cI\u2019ve been writing mostly fiction since I was quite young,\u201d said creative writer and RCTC student Ari Bailey. \u201cCurrently, I write urban fantasy, but I love any fiction that\u2019s toeing the line between being realistic and unrealistic. I like to write short pieces, and I hope to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}