{"id":34906,"date":"2013-12-02T18:34:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34906"},"modified":"2013-12-02T18:34:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:34:53","slug":"ucla-receiver-thomas-duarte-proud-of-biracial-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34906","title":{"rendered":"UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/sports\/20131125\/ucla-receiver-thomas-duarte-proud-of-biracial-heritage\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n2013-11-25<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/staff\/37\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Wang<\/a><\/strong>, Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>The smell hits him three or four blocks away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uclabruins.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=208817184&amp;DB_OEM_ID=30500\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Duarte<\/a> is coming back from a run around his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orange_County,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County<\/a> neighborhood, and the day is hot enough that the windows of his house have been cracked open.<\/p>\n<p>What that smell actually was, though, depended on the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always had tamales around,\u201d said the UCLA receiver. \u201cThat was probably my favorite. Coming around wintertime, that\u2019s pretty much what I think about when it comes to food around the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary by itself, but consider some of the other Duarte household favorites: teriyaki chicken, fried rice, sushi. The platter tends to be diverse when you\u2019re the son of a Mexican-American father and a Japanese-American mother.<\/p>\n<p>When Duarte was about five years old, his father Tim brought home a whole, freshly caught <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albacore\" target=\"_blank\">albacore<\/a> that a friend had just fished from the pier. As he cut thin slices on the kitchen counter, Thomas approached eagerly. He ate a piece and loved it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that\u2019s not in the blood, I don\u2019t know what is,\u201d Tim said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/sports\/20131125\/ucla-receiver-thomas-duarte-proud-of-biracial-heritage\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage Los Angeles Daily News 2013-11-25 Jack Wang, Staff Reporter The smell hits him three or four blocks away. Thomas Duarte is coming back from a run around his Orange County neighborhood, and the day is hot enough that the windows of his house have been cracked open. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[455,8952,16474,16473,7222,16475,4106],"class_list":["post-34906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-california","tag-football","tag-jack-wang","tag-los-angeles-daily-news","tag-sports","tag-thomas-duarte","tag-ucla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34906","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=34906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}