{"id":38338,"date":"2014-11-15T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38338"},"modified":"2014-11-15T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:00:02","slug":"what-are-you-anyway-why-i-loved-growing-up-in-a-mixed-race-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38338","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What are you, anyway?&#8217;: Why I loved growing up in a mixed-race family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universe.byu.edu\/2014\/11\/01\/what-are-you-anyway-why-i-loved-growing-up-in-a-mixed-race-family\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018What are you, anyway?&#8217;: Why I loved growing up in a mixed-race family<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universe.byu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">The Digital Universe<\/a><br \/>\nBrigham Young University<br \/>\nProvo, Utah<br \/>\n2014-11-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.gravatar.com\/angelamarler\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Angela Marler<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid it was completely normal for me to spend one weekend with my mom\u2019s side of the family, roasting a goat in a pit in the driveway, surrounded by fruit trees and watching <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telemundo\" target=\"_blank\">Telemundo<\/a>. It was also normal for me to spend a Sunday with my dad\u2019s relatives, lounging in a million-dollar home, playing video games and feasting on all-American roast and potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>I felt equally comfortable in either situation, and I loved both sides and their quirks. My heritage was something I was proud of, and even if some people didn\u2019t believe that my brother (dark-skinned with thick, curly hair) was the offspring of my father (extremely white and balding), I liked the fact that my family was a little different from my friends\u2019 families&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/universe.byu.edu\/2014\/11\/01\/what-are-you-anyway-why-i-loved-growing-up-in-a-mixed-race-family\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018What are you, anyway?&#8217;: Why I loved growing up in a mixed-race family The Digital Universe Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 2014-11-01 Angela Marler When I was a kid it was completely normal for me to spend one weekend with my mom\u2019s side of the family, roasting a goat in a pit in the driveway, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,14646,8,20],"tags":[18423,18426,18425,18424],"class_list":["post-38338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-angela-marler","tag-brigham-young-university","tag-digital-universe","tag-the-digital-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38338","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=38338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}