{"id":26929,"date":"2012-12-13T02:19:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T02:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26929"},"modified":"2014-11-11T22:32:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:32:23","slug":"%e2%80%9cchris-are-you-greek%e2%80%9d-sheila-asked-%e2%80%9cno-i%e2%80%99m-black-and-irish-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26929","title":{"rendered":"\u201cChris, are you Greek?\u201d Sheila asked. \u201cNo, I\u2019m black and Irish.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cChris, are you Greek?\u201d Sheila asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I\u2019m black and Irish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was silence in the room. Jermaine\u2019s eyebrows raised above his glasses. Sheila said, \u201cChris, we know that. I meant, are you in a fraternity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I smiled, embarrassed, \u201cNo. No, I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whole room burst into laughter, myself included. Kim put a hand up and said, \u201cYeah, I knew there was some soul in there the minute he walked into the interview.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chris \u201cC.T.\u201d Terry, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=23956\" target=\"_blank\">the greek<\/a>,\u201d <em>Story Week Reader<\/em> (2011): pages 31-32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChris, are you Greek?\u201d Sheila asked. \u201cNo, I\u2019m black and Irish.\u201d There was silence in the room. Jermaine\u2019s eyebrows raised above his glasses. Sheila said, \u201cChris, we know that. I meant, are you in a fraternity?\u201d I smiled, embarrassed, \u201cNo. No, I\u2019m not.\u201d The whole room burst into laughter, myself included. Kim put a hand [&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":[11081,10341,13074],"class_list":["post-26929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-chris-l-terry","tag-chris-terry","tag-chris-c-t--terry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929","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=26929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}