{"id":33002,"date":"2013-08-19T23:41:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T23:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33002"},"modified":"2015-05-06T16:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:56:02","slug":"%e2%80%98mixed-kids-are-always-so-beautiful%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33002","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/19\/mixed-kids-are-always-so-beautiful\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-08-19<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicolecallahan\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Soojung Callahan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like many other people of color, I am no stranger to awkward conversations about race. Strangers have complimented my English, remarked on how tall I am \u201cfor an Asian\u201d and \u2014 more times than I can count \u2014 <strong>asked where I am really from.<\/strong> Since becoming a parent five years ago, I\u2019ve had to learn to field a whole new set of questions and comments regarding my multiracial children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKorean, Irish and Lebanese is such a unique combination,\u201d a friend exclaimed after my eldest daughter was born. \u201cShe\u2019s like a poster baby for the U.N.!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several people in our diverse suburb of the District of Columbia have asked if I am my daughters\u2019 baby sitter, presumably because they cannot spot the resemblance between us. At a party last year, a white woman asked if I was surprised when my children were born: \u201cDid you expect them to look, you know, less white?\u201d (No, I was pretty sure who their father was, so I wasn\u2019t really shocked.)<\/p>\n<p>Another person wanted to know if I thought the girls\u2019 \u201ccoloring\u201d would stay the same or \u201cget darker\u201d over time. Then there was the mother at the park who looked at my girls on the swing set and said bluntly: \u201cWhat are they, exactly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The girls have even received compliments for not looking fully Korean. \u201cYour daughter is so pretty,\u201d a Chinese friend said to me last month. \u201cHave you thought about having her model?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d I replied (possibly the truest thing I have ever said)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/19\/mixed-kids-are-always-so-beautiful\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful\u2019 Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting The New York Times 2013-08-19 Nicole Soojung Callahan Like many other people of color, I am no stranger to awkward conversations about race. Strangers have complimented my English, remarked on how tall I am \u201cfor an Asian\u201d and \u2014 more times than I can count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,414,8,20],"tags":[15471,2640,14810,2327],"class_list":["post-33002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-motherlode-adventures-in-parenting","tag-new-york-times","tag-nicole-soojung-callahan","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33002","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=33002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}