{"id":37329,"date":"2014-09-12T15:08:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37329"},"modified":"2014-09-12T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:08:41","slug":"making-mixed-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37329","title":{"rendered":"Making mixed babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bump2babyblog.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/11\/making-mixed-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Making mixed babies<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bump2babyblog.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/11\/making-mixed-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bump 2 Baby: Pregnancy &amp; Mothering Blog<\/a><br \/>\n2014-09-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/about.me\/jodylancastlec\"><strong>Jody-Lan Castle<\/strong><\/a>, Linked Data Specialist<br \/>\n<em>BBC News<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the world becomes increasingly more heterogeneous, having a mixed identity is increasingly common.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really important to make children aware of their family background.<\/p>\n<p>The memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/jodylancastle.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/14\/my-mixed-race-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">my own parents\u2019 family histories<\/a> had already begun to become diluted as they were passed down to me.<\/p>\n<p>My Mother had voyaged to the shores of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> by boat from the far lands of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malaysia\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysia<\/a>. And my Father, born just round the corner in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Essex\" target=\"_blank\">Essex<\/a>, was the son of descendants of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Irish<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romani_people\" target=\"_blank\">Roma<\/a> travellers.<\/p>\n<p>But specific details were never handed down to me, as they had started fading even from my Mother and Father\u2019s recollections before I was born&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/bump2babyblog.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/11\/making-mixed-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making mixed babies Bump 2 Baby: Pregnancy &amp; Mothering Blog 2014-09-11 Jody-Lan Castle, Linked Data Specialist BBC News As the world becomes increasingly more heterogeneous, having a mixed identity is increasingly common. It\u2019s really important to make children aware of their family background. The memories of my own parents\u2019 family histories had already begun to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,414,8,10],"tags":[17873,17872,17874],"class_list":["post-37329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-family","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-bump-2-baby","tag-bump-2-baby-pregnancy-mothering-blog","tag-jody-lan-castle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37329","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=37329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}