{"id":42309,"date":"2015-08-19T01:35:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T01:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42309"},"modified":"2015-08-19T01:35:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T01:35:17","slug":"while-my-mixed-heritage-may-have-created-a-grey-area-surrounding-my-self-identification-keeping-me-with-a-foot-on-both-sides-of-the-fence-i-have-come-to-embrace-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42309","title":{"rendered":"While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that. To say who I am, to share where I\u2019m from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman. That when asked to choose my ethnicity in a questionnaire as in my seventh grade class, or these days to check \u2018Other\u2019, I simply say: \u2018Sorry, world, this is not Lost and I am not one of The Others. I am enough exactly as I am.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meghan_Markle\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42278\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m More Than An \u2018Other\u2019<\/a>,\u201d <em>Elle UK<\/em>, August 17, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elleuk.com\/now-trending\/more-than-an-other\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.elleuk.com\/now-trending\/more-than-an-other<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that. To say who I am, to share where I\u2019m from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman. That when asked to [&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":[20716,20717],"class_list":["post-42309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-elle-uk","tag-meghan-markle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42309","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=42309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42310,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42309\/revisions\/42310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}