{"id":51944,"date":"2017-03-01T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51944"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:34:21","slug":"mixed-race-couple-the-priest-refused-to-marry-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51944","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race couple: &#8216;The priest refused to marry us&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-39003902\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mixed-race couple: &#8216;The priest refused to marry us&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/batesybates\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Claire Bates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-39003902\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/B61B\/production\/_94791664_976_pdc3829-2a.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Phil Coomes<\/em><br \/>\nTrudy and Barclay Patoir met during World War Two at a time when mixed-race relationships were still taboo. More than 70 years later they reveal the obstacles they had to overcome to stay together.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>When Trudy Menard and Barclay Patoir told friends and family they were going to get married, no-one thought it was a good idea &#8211; because Trudy was white and Barclay was black.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I told them at work they thought I was daft marrying a black man. They all said, &#8216;It won&#8217;t last you know,&#8217; because it was a mixed-race marriage,&#8221; says Trudy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think some people thought I was marrying beneath myself.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-39003902\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Trudy Menard and Barclay Patoir told friends and family they were going to get married, no-one thought it was a good idea &#8211; because Trudy was white and Barclay was black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,10],"tags":[26302,8597,12431,26300,26301,26303],"class_list":["post-51944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-barclay-patoir","tag-bbc-news","tag-bbc-news-magazine","tag-claire-bates","tag-trudy-menard","tag-trudy-patoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51944","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=51944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51946,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51944\/revisions\/51946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}