{"id":55092,"date":"2017-11-09T03:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T03:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55092"},"modified":"2017-11-09T03:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T03:15:50","slug":"being-mixed-race-is-a-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55092","title":{"rendered":"Being mixed-race is a blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/justanalise.com\/mixed-race-blessing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Being mixed-race is a blessing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/justanalise.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Analise<\/a><br \/>\n2017-11-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustAnalise868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Analise Kandasammy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/justanalise.com\/mixed-race-blessing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/justanalise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_20171029_225840_427.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Being mixed-race is a blessing in disguise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>True it can be uncomfortable, annoying and hurtful but the lack of comfort that comes from being mixed-race can be a positive, transcendent life experience.<\/p>\n<p>A human who belongs to a specific ethnic group builds a sense of belonging inside of a culture or people from that culture. For mixed race persons like myself, we have no such belonging, no such home and so it is this feeling of not belonging that makes us feel like we are not worthy or lovable as a human being.<\/p>\n<p>However, let\u2019s turn that upside down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/justanalise.com\/mixed-race-blessing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being mixed-race is a blessing in disguise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8],"tags":[21087,21086],"class_list":["post-55092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","tag-analise-kandasammy","tag-just-analise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55092","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=55092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55094,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55092\/revisions\/55094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}