{"id":47037,"date":"2016-05-19T01:53:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47037"},"modified":"2016-07-14T22:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:44:41","slug":"47037","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47037","title":{"rendered":"poem: Casey Rocheteau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionstationmag.com\/2014\/01\/poem-casey-rocheteau\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>poem: Casey Rocheteau<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionstationmag.com\/2014\/01\/\" target=\"_blank\">Union Station<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caseyrocheteau.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Casey Rocheteau<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionstationmag.com\/2014\/01\/poem-casey-rocheteau\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionstationmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rocheteau.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The first time I was black<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was staring out the sliding glass door<br \/>\nat the mourning doves in the back yard.<br \/>\nMy white mother came up<br \/>\nbehind me and said that if anyone<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t want to be my friend at school<br \/>\nit was their loss. I asked,<br \/>\nWhy would anyone not want to be my friend?<br \/>\nwell, because you\u2019re black.<br \/>\nI looked at my hands<br \/>\nuncomprehending&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire poem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionstationmag.com\/2014\/01\/poem-casey-rocheteau\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>poem: Casey Rocheteau Union Station January 2014 Casey Rocheteau The first time I was black I was staring out the sliding glass door at the mourning doves in the back yard. My white mother came up behind me and said that if anyone didn\u2019t want to be my friend at school it was their loss. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[23816,23817,23818],"class_list":["post-47037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-casey-rocheteau","tag-union-station","tag-union-station-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037","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=47037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47040,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037\/revisions\/47040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}