{"id":47056,"date":"2016-05-21T23:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T23:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47056"},"modified":"2016-05-21T23:26:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T23:26:42","slug":"obama-signs-measure-striking-oriental-and-negro-from-federal-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47056","title":{"rendered":"Obama signs measure striking &#8216;oriental&#8217; and &#8216;negro&#8217; from federal law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/280751-obama-signs-measure-striking-oriental-and-negro-from-federal\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Obama signs measure striking &#8216;oriental&#8217; and &#8216;negro&#8217; from federal law<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jordanfabian\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jordan Fabian<\/strong><\/a>, White House Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> has signed <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/house\/279362-congress-sends-bill-eliminating-oriental-and-negro-from-law-to-obama\" target=\"_blank\">legislation<\/a> striking outdated racial terms such as \u201cOriental\u201d and \u201cNegro\u201d from federal laws.<\/p>\n<p>Obama signed the bill without fanfare on Friday along with six other pieces of legislation, the White House said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/280751-obama-signs-measure-striking-oriental-and-negro-from-federal\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama signs measure striking &#8216;oriental&#8217; and &#8216;negro&#8217; from federal law The Hill 2016-05-20 Jordan Fabian, White House Correspondent President Obama has signed legislation striking outdated racial terms such as \u201cOriental\u201d and \u201cNegro\u201d from federal laws. Obama signed the bill without fanfare on Friday along with six other pieces of legislation, the White House said&#8230; Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[23827,20354],"class_list":["post-47056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-jordan-fabian","tag-the-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47056","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=47056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47057,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47056\/revisions\/47057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}