{"id":49355,"date":"2016-10-08T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49355"},"modified":"2016-10-08T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T02:00:08","slug":"the-only-heritage-i-ever-had-was-irish-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49355","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe only heritage I ever had was Irish heritage.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m mixed race. I identify as a black woman from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a>, who is quite pale,\u201d she laughs. \u201cThe only heritage I ever had was Irish heritage.\u201d [Lorraine] Maher is aware of her other ancestry, \u201cbut it is not important at the moment for me\u201d, she says&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anthea McTeirnan, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49270\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Growing up in Ireland I was the only black person\u2019<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Irish Times<\/em>, September 30, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/growing-up-in-ireland-i-was-the-only-black-person-1.2807492\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/growing-up-in-ireland-i-was-the-only-black-person-1.2807492<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m mixed race. I identify as a black woman from Ireland, who is quite pale,\u201d she laughs. \u201cThe only heritage I ever had was Irish heritage.\u201d [Lorraine] Maher is aware of her other ancestry, \u201cbut it is not important at the moment for me\u201d, she says&#8230; Anthea McTeirnan, \u201c\u2018Growing up in Ireland I was the [&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":[25080,246,16528,25079,16526],"class_list":["post-49355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-anthea-mcteirnan","tag-ireland","tag-irish-times","tag-lorraine-maher","tag-the-irish-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49355","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=49355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49356,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49355\/revisions\/49356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}