{"id":56304,"date":"2025-06-30T21:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=56304"},"modified":"2025-06-30T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:49:16","slug":"legends-of-our-lifetime-miguel-a-rivera-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=56304","title":{"rendered":"Legends of Our Lifetime &#8211; Miguel A. Rivera Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this episode of Legends of Our Lifetime, Orla Diamantino chats with the author of Pivotal Universe, Miguel Angel Rivera, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Puerto Rican American parents. His mother fueled his love of reading and science fiction early on by introducing him to comic books. A Rutgers alumni and criminal justice major, he served twenty-seven years in various law enforcement capacities before retiring as a police lieutenant. Now a writer, in his spare time he enjoys martial arts, having earned a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Legends Of Our Lifetime - Miguel A. Rivera Jr\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flegends-of-our-lifetime-miguel-rivera%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-56045\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL.png 960w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-162x110.png 162w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-90x61.png 90w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-370x251.png 370w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-653x442.png 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this episode of Legends of Our Lifetime, Orla Diamantino chats with the author of Pivotal Universe, Miguel Angel Rivera, Jr. Miguel was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Puerto Rican American parents. His mother fueled his love of reading and science fiction early on by introducing him to comic books. A Rutgers alumni and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":56045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27186,27188,26218,27187],"class_list":["post-56304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-miguel-angel-rivera-jr","tag-miguel-rivera","tag-orla-diamantino","tag-pivotal-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56305,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56304\/revisions\/56305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}