{"id":53490,"date":"2017-04-13T22:06:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53490"},"modified":"2017-04-13T22:06:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:06:43","slug":"please-select-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53490","title":{"rendered":"Please Select One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityonahillpress.com\/2017\/04\/12\/please-select-one\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Please Select One<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityonahillpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">City On A Hill Press<\/a><br \/>\nSanta Cruz, California<br \/>\n2017-04-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Savanna Heydon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityonahillpress.com\/2017\/04\/12\/please-select-one\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cityonahillpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-12-at-3.46.57-PM-285x420.png\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was in third grade when I realized I was biracial. \u201cPlease Select One,\u201d I was instructed as I stared down at the race identity section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Standardized_Testing_and_Reporting_(STAR)_Program\" target=\"_blank\">STAR test<\/a>, the tip of my pencil hovering back and forth over circles marked \u201cAsian\u201d and \u201cWhite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The divide of my identity had never before been presented to me so blatantly. Deciding to leave both bubbles blank was no solution to the conflict that would become a personal obsession throughout my life. Biologically, I am both. Racially, I am neither. Culturally, I am confused&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityonahillpress.com\/2017\/04\/12\/please-select-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in third grade when I realized I was biracial. \u201cPlease Select One,\u201d I was instructed as I stared down at the race identity section of the STAR test, the tip of my pencil hovering back and forth over circles marked \u201cAsian\u201d and \u201cWhite.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[7976,26848],"class_list":["post-53490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-city-on-a-hill-press","tag-savanna-heydon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53490","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=53490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53491,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53490\/revisions\/53491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}