{"id":55218,"date":"2017-11-20T02:16:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55218"},"modified":"2017-11-20T02:16:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:16:53","slug":"i-dont-usually-do-this-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55218","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t usually do this, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyeartha.com\/i-dont-usually-do-this-but\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>I don\u2019t usually do this, but&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyeartha.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simply Eartha<\/a><br \/>\n2017-11-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kittshapiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kitt Shapiro<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyeartha.com\/i-dont-usually-do-this-but\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplyeartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eartha-Kitt-leaving-hospital-after-giving-birth-to-her-daughter-Kitt-788x445@2x.jpeg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eartha_Kitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eartha Kitt<\/a> leaving hospital after giving birth to her daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kittshapiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kitt<\/a> (c. 1961-11-26).<\/small><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I don\u2019t usually respond to negative comments, but I am compelled to do so here because I feel there is an opportunity for dialogue on a subject that many struggle with and is very relevant in today\u2019s times.<\/p>\n<p>As the most popular post on my blog, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyeartha.com\/why-dont-you-look-like-your-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Don\u2019t You Look More Like Your Mother?<\/a>\u2019, continues to receive a lot of attention, one recent comment has brought me back to the subject of race, specifically, mixed race, and the desire of some truly ignorant people to deny the existence of others, because they do not \u2018fit\u2019 the stereotype of how \u2018mixed race\u2019 people should look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyeartha.com\/i-dont-usually-do-this-but\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplyeartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0689-e1510866820870-1024x811.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eartha_Kitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eartha Kitt<\/a> with daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kittshapiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kitt Shapiro<\/a><\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyeartha.com\/i-dont-usually-do-this-but\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the most popular post on my blog, \u2018Why Don\u2019t You Look More Like Your Mother?\u2019, continues to receive a lot of attention, one recent comment has brought me back to the subject of race, specifically, mixed race, and the desire of some truly ignorant people to deny the existence of others, because they do not \u2018fit\u2019 the stereotype of how \u2018mixed race\u2019 people should look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,1245],"tags":[11896,27673,27671,27672],"class_list":["post-55218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-biography","tag-eartha-mae-kitt","tag-eartha-kitt","tag-kitt-shapiro","tag-simply-eartha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55218","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=55218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55219,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55218\/revisions\/55219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}