{"id":35854,"date":"2014-02-15T22:27:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35854"},"modified":"2014-02-15T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T22:27:06","slug":"walking-down-the-widening-aisle-of-interracial-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35854","title":{"rendered":"Walking Down The Widening Aisle Of Interracial Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\/2014\/02\/13\/276516736\/walking-down-the-widening-aisle-of-interracial-marriages\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Walking Down The Widening Aisle Of Interracial Marriages<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/weekend-edition-saturday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend Edition Saturday<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2014-02-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/177498291\/hansi-lo-wang\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hansi Lo Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: Code Switch has been engaged in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\/2014\/02\/14\/276543080\/what-we-learned-from-our-month-long-exploration-of-xculturelove\" target=\"_blank\">month-long exploration<\/a> of romance across racial and cultural lines. Follow the Twitter conversation via the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=xculturelove&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">#xculturelove<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are small but growing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/population\/www\/cen2010\/briefs\/tables\/appendix.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">More than 5.3 million<\/a> marriages in the U.S. are between husbands and wives of different races or ethnicities. According to the 2010 Census, they make up one in 10 marriages between opposite-sex couples, marking a 28-percent increase since 2000&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/v2\/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=276516736&amp;m=277385097\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the audio <a href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/wesat\/2014\/02\/20140215_wesat_walking_down_the_widening_aisle_of_interracial_marriages.mp3?dl=1 \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Read the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\/2014\/02\/13\/276516736\/walking-down-the-widening-aisle-of-interracial-marriages\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking Down The Widening Aisle Of Interracial Marriages Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2014-02-15 Hansi Lo Wang Editor&#8217;s Note: Code Switch has been engaged in a month-long exploration of romance across racial and cultural lines. Follow the Twitter conversation via the hashtag #xculturelove. The numbers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,33,8,20],"tags":[14788,16984,2309,2833],"class_list":["post-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-code-switch","tag-hansi-lo-wang","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854","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=35854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}