{"id":43095,"date":"2015-10-05T19:54:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43095"},"modified":"2015-10-05T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:54:45","slug":"i-said-that-it-takes-an-incident-like-this-to-make-me-truly-realize-that-two-of-my-sons-are-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43095","title":{"rendered":"I said that it takes an incident like this to make me truly realize that two of my sons are black."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In an interview about the events <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nyc-crime\/photo-shows-suspect-resembles-tennis-star-james-blake-article-1.2356150\" target=\"_blank\">last week that happened to my youngest son<\/a>, I said that it takes an incident like this to make me truly realize that two of my sons are black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Betty Blake, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43086\" target=\"_blank\">EXCLUSIVE: Race relations in America are \u2018getting worse,\u2019 says James Blake\u2019s mother Betty, a white Briton who raised 2 black sons in New York<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Daily News<\/em>, September 17, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/exclusive-james-blake-mother-weighs-race-relations-article-1.2364319\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/exclusive-james-blake-mother-weighs-race-relations-article-1.2364319<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview about the events last week that happened to my youngest son, I said that it takes an incident like this to make me truly realize that two of my sons are black. Betty Blake, \u201cEXCLUSIVE: Race relations in America are \u2018getting worse,\u2019 says James Blake\u2019s mother Betty, a white Briton who raised [&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":[21290,21014,1463,18849],"class_list":["post-43095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-betty-blake","tag-james-blake","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-the-new-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43095","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=43095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43096,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43095\/revisions\/43096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}