{"id":54785,"date":"2017-08-10T01:51:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T01:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54785"},"modified":"2017-08-10T01:51:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T01:51:06","slug":"why-it-feels-strange-when-people-admire-your-mixed-race-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54785","title":{"rendered":"Why it feels strange when people admire your mixed race kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/topics\/life\/family\/article\/2017\/07\/06\/why-it-feels-strange-when-people-admire-your-mixed-race-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Why it feels strange when people admire your mixed race kids<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SBS<\/a><br \/>\n2017-07-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Rose<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/topics\/life\/family\/article\/2017\/07\/06\/why-it-feels-strange-when-people-admire-your-mixed-race-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/topics\/sites\/sbs.com.au.topics\/files\/styles\/full\/public\/gettyimages-503848163.jpg?itok=FzuuWJgL&amp;mtime=1499315015\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Friends and strangers always comment on what a &#8220;lovely mix&#8221; his Anglo-Vietnamese children are. <em>(Blend Images\/Getty)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Ian Rose gets a bit weirded out when people coo over his Anglo-Vietnamese children. But can\u2019t turn down free dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The other night, the end of a real <a href=\"http:\/\/wintersolsticemelbourne.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">midwinter Melbourne<\/a> Tuesday, having finally got my daughter to choose a goddam BeenyBoo to sleep with, angled her rainbow lamp to her satisfaction and said goodnight, I walked into the kitchen to overhear my partner (who\u2019d seen our son to bed with far less effort), on the phone to a friend, uttering words that chilled my heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we can do that. We\u2019ll be there tomorrow evening at six. No problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has this fetish for doing people favours. Her generosity of spirit is the bane of my existence. (Except when I\u2019m its beneficiary, of course.)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/topics\/life\/family\/article\/2017\/07\/06\/why-it-feels-strange-when-people-admire-your-mixed-race-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Rose gets a bit weirded out when people coo over his Anglo-Vietnamese children. But can\u2019t turn down free dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,414,8],"tags":[986,23692,18453],"class_list":["post-54785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-family","category-media-archive","tag-australia","tag-ian-rose","tag-sbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54785","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=54785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54786,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54785\/revisions\/54786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}