{"id":47025,"date":"2016-05-18T21:06:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47025"},"modified":"2016-06-13T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:01:15","slug":"how-street-kids-in-the-bronx-taught-me-its-ok-to-be-biracial-and-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47025","title":{"rendered":"How street kids in the Bronx taught me it\u2019s OK to be biracial and gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/interactive\/299915\/comic-street-kids-bronx-taught-me-its-ok-biracial-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How street kids in the Bronx taught me it\u2019s OK to be biracial and gay<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\" target=\"_blank\">Fusion<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terryblas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Terry Blas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a \u201cnerdy, Mexican, gay, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mormons\" target=\"_blank\">Mormon<\/a> child of the \u201980s and \u201990s,\u201d cartoonist Terry Blas had trouble figuring out his identity\u2026 until an experience in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> taught him a valuable lesson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/interactive\/299915\/comic-street-kids-bronx-taught-me-its-ok-biracial-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/01-GhettoSwirl-1500.jpg?quality=80&amp;strip=all\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire comic strip <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/interactive\/299915\/comic-street-kids-bronx-taught-me-its-ok-biracial-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How street kids in the Bronx taught me it\u2019s OK to be biracial and gay Fusion 2016-05-18 Terry Blas As a \u201cnerdy, Mexican, gay, Mormon child of the \u201980s and \u201990s,\u201d cartoonist Terry Blas had trouble figuring out his identity\u2026 until an experience in New York taught him a valuable lesson. &#8230; Read the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,666,14646,8,820,20],"tags":[18817,19052,23801,596,23800],"class_list":["post-47025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-gaylesbian","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-bronx","tag-fusion","tag-ghetto-swirl","tag-new-york-city","tag-terry-blas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47025","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=47025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47027,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47025\/revisions\/47027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}