{"id":42306,"date":"2015-08-18T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42306"},"modified":"2015-08-18T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:40:17","slug":"today-i-define-myself-as-half-white-half-asian-but-no-less-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42306","title":{"rendered":"Today I define myself as half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Having your core \u2018Irishness\u2019 questioned raises issues when attempting to get to grips with your own sense of self.<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, I referred to myself as white, perhaps in an attempt to fit in with my peers.<\/p>\n<p>Today I define myself as half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deanvannguyen\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Van Nguyen<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42272\" target=\"_blank\">Half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Irish Examiner<\/em>, August 15, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/features\/half-white-half-asian-but-no-less-irish-348324.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/features\/half-white-half-asian-but-no-less-irish-348324.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having your core \u2018Irishness\u2019 questioned raises issues when attempting to get to grips with your own sense of self. As a teenager, I referred to myself as white, perhaps in an attempt to fit in with my peers. Today I define myself as half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish. Dean Van Nguyen, \u201cHalf-white, half-Asian, but [&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":[20713,18237,18236],"class_list":["post-42306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dean-van-nguyen","tag-irish-examiner","tag-the-irish-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42306","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=42306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42307,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42306\/revisions\/42307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}