{"id":55835,"date":"2018-03-06T03:35:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55835"},"modified":"2018-03-06T03:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:57:00","slug":"55835","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55835","title":{"rendered":"A Family Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ballbearingsmag.com\/2018\/02\/26\/a-family-affair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Family Affair<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ballbearingsmag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ball Bearings Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2018-02-26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/merrittmcl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Merritt Mclaughlin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ballbearingsmag.com\/2018\/02\/26\/a-family-affair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ballbearingsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Artboard_1_copy.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Photos\/Illustrations by Annelise Hanshaw<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>When a child is raised with parents from different cultures, they are exposed to different perspectives and beliefs that shape how they approach the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a> culture, the most valuable things are said to come in threes\u2014The Earth, the Sea, and the Sky, and the three stages of life. Representing this ideology is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celtic_knot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic knot<\/a>, known also as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triquetra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Triquetra<\/a> or the Trinity Knot.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtic knot is composed of lines woven together meeting at three key points. The knot has been adopted into many other cultures despite its Celtic origin.<\/p>\n<p>The knot, a versatile and ornate symbol, adorns wedding rings, glows with sunlight streaming through stained glass church windows, and even shows up on TV shows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celebrating Differences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Baker\u2019s Celtic knot is embedded in his skin, a tattoo laying directly over his heart. For him, its points represent his mom, his siblings, and his step-dad.<\/p>\n<p>Like the knot, his family is woven together despite the staggering differences in their cultures.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen is biracial, and he appreciates all the different cultures and people who came together to create his unique worldview&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/ballbearingsmag.com\/2018\/02\/26\/a-family-affair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a child is raised with parents from different cultures, they are exposed to different perspectives and beliefs that shape how they approach the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,820,20],"tags":[28114,28117,28108,28115,28116,28111,28109,28112,28113,28110],"class_list":["post-55835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-a-family-affair","tag-ashlee-baird","tag-ball-bearings-magazine","tag-brianna-bradley","tag-david-bradley","tag-mary-baker-boudissa","tag-merritt-mclaughlin","tag-nabil-boudissa","tag-seth-carrier-ladd","tag-stephen-baker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55835","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=55835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55841,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55835\/revisions\/55841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}