{"id":25221,"date":"2012-09-06T20:27:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25221"},"modified":"2014-09-24T21:38:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T21:38:30","slug":"rep-mike-honda-obama-is-first-asian-american-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25221","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

U.S. News & World Report<\/a>
\n2012-09-05<\/p>\n

Lauren Fox<\/a><\/strong>, Political Reporter<\/p>\n

The details of Bill Clinton’s<\/a> youth, along with a number of his hobbies while in the White House, often led some people to call Clinton “America’s first black president.”<\/p>\n

Now that the country’s actual first black president has been in office for some time, California Rep. Mike Honda<\/a>, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, wants to draw attention to whom he says is America’s first Asian-American president: Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Everyone looks at him and says he’s black and he’s white,” Honda says. “He’s Asian in his upbringing. You cannot come out of Hawaii<\/a> and not have an Asian approach to things.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President U.S. News & World Report 2012-09-05 Lauren Fox, Political Reporter The details of Bill Clinton’s youth, along with a number of his hobbies while in the White House, often led some people to call Clinton “America’s first black president.” Now that the country’s actual first black president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[11770,11769,11768],"class_list":["post-25221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-lauren-fox","tag-mike-honda","tag-u-s-news-world-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25221","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=25221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}