{"id":10007,"date":"2026-09-20T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/?p=10007"},"modified":"2026-09-20T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:00:01","slug":"beyond-the-postcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/?p=10007","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the postcard: a Dominican point of view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coast is an obvious starting point for a visual story about the Dominican Republic. The water, the light and the palms are immediately recognisable. But a personal journal should also make room for the country beyond the holiday image.<\/p>\n<p>Piantini is part of the city story this journal wants to tell: density, architecture, streets and the pace of urban life. Placing that perspective alongside the beach creates a fuller editorial direction. City and coast do not need to compete for attention.<\/p>\n<p>The most personal stories will come from specific details: a familiar corner, a building seen at a different hour, a beach remembered for more than its view. Those details should come from lived experience and properly identified photography, rather than a generic travel list.<\/p>\n<p>That is the invitation for this section: look closely, name places accurately, and let everyday life share the frame with spectacular scenery. The accompanying image shows Santo Domingo\u2019s skyline; it is not presented as a verified photograph of Piantini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making room for Piantini as well as the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brauliomedrano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}