{"id":22103,"date":"2013-03-31T02:49:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T02:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22103"},"modified":"2016-04-07T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T01:25:22","slug":"%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re-irish%e2%80%9d-celebrating-hidden-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22103","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou\u2019re Irish?\u201d Celebrating Hidden Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/2012\/03\/31\/youre-irish-celebrating-hidden-identities\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cYou\u2019re Irish?\u201d Celebrating Hidden Identities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu<\/a><br \/>\n2012-03-31<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re Irish?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I introduced myself to the Irishman by my father\u2019s family name Murphy and watched as he stared at me in seeming disbelief and confusion before uttering, \u201cWell, it\u2019s a good name anyway.\u201d I recalled this incident recently as I celebrated St. Patrick\u2019s Day with a bunch of other Irishmen. The Boston Globe carried an interesting story that day\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=21545\" target=\"_blank\">St. Patrick\u2019s Day Holds Mixed Emotions For Some<\/a>\u2014that introduced some other Irish who celebrated their heritage with complex feelings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cYou don\u2019t look like a Murphy.\u201d I was always told. And I came to accept their judgment and think of myself as Japanese and not Irish&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/2012\/03\/31\/youre-irish-celebrating-hidden-identities\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019re Irish?\u201d Celebrating Hidden Identities Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-03-31 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University \u201cYou\u2019re Irish?\u201d I introduced myself to the Irishman by my father\u2019s family name Murphy and watched as he stared at me in seeming disbelief and confusion before uttering, \u201cWell, it\u2019s a good name anyway.\u201d I recalled this incident recently as I celebrated St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8,394,20],"tags":[512],"class_list":["post-22103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-stephen-murphy-shigematsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46523,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions\/46523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}