{"id":40909,"date":"2015-04-20T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40909"},"modified":"2016-12-04T01:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T01:36:01","slug":"meeting-miss-universe-japan-the-half-who-has-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40909","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Miss Universe Japan, the \u2018half\u2019 who has it all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meeting Miss Universe Japan, the \u2018half\u2019 who has it all<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Japan Times<\/a>
\n2015-04-19<\/p>\n

Bay McNeil<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nStar-struck: Baye McNeil meets Miss Universe Japan, Ariana Miyamoto, at The Japan Times offices in Tokyo<\/a>. | OLGA GARNOVA<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I felt an almost star-struck excitement at the chance to interview the newly crowned Miss Universe<\/a> Japan, Ariana Miyamoto<\/a>. I mean, she\u2019s all the rage, right?<\/p>\n

Her name has lit up social media like the constellations since her coronation. Black media can\u2019t stop talking about her. To many, she is yet another global validation of black beauty in the flesh, a young woman who overcame prejudice and race-based adversity to achieve the previously unachievable. How do you not<\/em> talk about her? Even some of the big dogs, like CNN and Reuters, have given her the time of day, spreading her name and compelling story to media markets everywhere.<\/p>\n

Well, almost<\/em> everywhere…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meeting Miss Universe Japan, the \u2018half\u2019 who has it all The Japan Times 2015-04-19 Bay McNeil Star-struck: Baye McNeil meets Miss Universe Japan, Ariana Miyamoto, at The Japan Times offices in Tokyo. | OLGA GARNOVA I felt an almost star-struck excitement at the chance to interview the newly crowned Miss Universe Japan, Ariana Miyamoto. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,13743,8],"tags":[19675,19931,1793,15328,19676,15327],"class_list":["post-40909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-interviews","category-media-archive","tag-ariana-miyamoto","tag-bay-mcneil","tag-japan","tag-japan-times","tag-miss-universe","tag-the-japan-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909","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=40909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50436,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909\/revisions\/50436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}