{"id":40207,"date":"2015-03-02T02:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T02:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40207"},"modified":"2015-03-02T02:10:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T02:10:45","slug":"of-the-blood-that-feeds-my-heart-one-drop-in-eight-is-black-bright-red-as-the-rest-may-be-that-one-drop-poisons-all-the-flood-those-seven-bright-drops-give-me-love-like-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40207","title":{"rendered":"Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black \u2014 bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Zoe: That \u2014 that is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1146\" target=\"_blank\">one drop in eight is black<\/a> \u2014 bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours \u2014 hope like yours \u2014 ambition like yours \u2014 life hung with passions like dewdrops on the morning flowers; but the one black drop gives me despair, for I\u2019m an unclean thing \u2014 forbidden by the laws \u2014 I\u2019m an Octoroon!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dion_Boucicault\" target=\"_blank\">Dion Boucicault<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36987\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Octoroon: A Play, in Four Acts<\/em><\/a>, (First Performed at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, December, 1859), Act I.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.latech.edu\/~bmagee\/louisiana_anthology\/texts\/boucicault\/boucicault--octaroon.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www2.latech.edu\/~bmagee\/louisiana_anthology\/texts\/boucicault\/boucicault&#8211;octaroon.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe: That \u2014 that is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black \u2014 bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours \u2014 hope like yours \u2014 ambition like yours [&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":[1627],"class_list":["post-40207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dion-boucicault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40207","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=40207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}