{"id":25437,"date":"2012-09-17T01:57:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T01:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25437"},"modified":"2016-06-15T00:44:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T00:44:53","slug":"by-virtue-of-being-african-american-i%e2%80%99m-attuned-to-how-throughout-this-country%e2%80%99s-history-there-have-been-times-when-folks-have-been-locked-out-of-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25437","title":{"rendered":"By virtue of being African-American, I\u2019m attuned to how throughout this country\u2019s history there have been times when folks have been locked out of opportunity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By virtue of being African-American, I\u2019m attuned to how throughout this country\u2019s history there have been times when folks have been locked out of opportunity, and because of the hard work of people of all races, slowly those doors opened to more and more people. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lynn Sherr and Maggie Murphy,\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25225\" target=\"_blank\">PARADE Exclusive: A Conversation With the Obamas<\/a>,\u201d <em>Parade Magazine<\/em>, September 12, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/parade.com\/124838\/lynnsherrmaggiemurphy\/02-conversation-with-the-obamas\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/parade.com\/124838\/lynnsherrmaggiemurphy\/02-conversation-with-the-obamas\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By virtue of being African-American, I\u2019m attuned to how throughout this country\u2019s history there have been times when folks have been locked out of opportunity, and because of the hard work of people of all races, slowly those doors opened to more and more people. \u2014President Barack Obama Lynn Sherr and Maggie Murphy,\u201cPARADE Exclusive: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11774,11775,11773],"class_list":["post-25437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-lynn-sherr","tag-maggie-murphy","tag-parade-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437","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=25437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47650,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437\/revisions\/47650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}