{"id":120851,"date":"2014-09-18T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=120851"},"modified":"2014-09-18T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:05:08","slug":"making-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=120851","title":{"rendered":"Making It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106504029\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/106504029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making It<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/storycorps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StoryCorps<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Noe Rueda grew up poor in Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago\u2019s West Side. As young as 8 years old, Noe often relied on his entrepreneurial talents to help his mom and three siblings make ends meet. At StoryCorps, Noe tells his high school teacher Alex Fernandez about his childhood, and Alex shares his dreams for Noe\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=53667\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Making It<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making It from StoryCorps on Vimeo. Noe Rueda grew up poor in Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago\u2019s West Side. As young as 8 years old, Noe often relied on his entrepreneurial talents to help his mom and three siblings make ends meet. At StoryCorps, Noe tells his high school teacher Alex Fernandez about his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120852,"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":[184],"class_list":["post-120851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-animation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/making-it.jpg?fit=295%2C166&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53667,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=53667","url_meta":{"origin":120851,"position":0},"title":"Making It","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"18\/09\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Making It from StoryCorps on Vimeo. 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