{"id":38495,"date":"2014-11-25T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38495"},"modified":"2014-11-25T22:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:07:21","slug":"most-other-mixed-and-biracial-people-i-know-have-at-least-one-secret-or-lie-in-their-family-have-at-least-one-person-who-is-choosing-to-pass-or-is-passing-and-doesnt-even-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38495","title":{"rendered":"Most other mixed and biracial people I know have at least one secret or lie in their family, have at least one person who is choosing to pass or is passing and doesn\u2019t even know it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMost other mixed and biracial people I know have at least one secret or lie in their family, have at least one person who is choosing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass<\/a> or is passing and doesn\u2019t even know it. That theme is so common. I have a half sister who didn\u2019t know she was half black until she was 11. I\u2019m interested in telling these stories because it is my family\u2019s history\u2026\u201d \u2014Amber Gray<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alexis Soloski, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38458\" target=\"_blank\">Returning to an \u2018Impossible\u2019 Role<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>, April 24, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/27\/theater\/amber-gray-on-an-octoroon-at-soho-rep.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/27\/theater\/amber-gray-on-an-octoroon-at-soho-rep.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost other mixed and biracial people I know have at least one secret or lie in their family, have at least one person who is choosing to pass or is passing and doesn\u2019t even know it. That theme is so common. I have a half sister who didn\u2019t know she was half black until she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18489,18490,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-38495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-alexis-soloski","tag-amber-gray","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38495","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=38495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}