{"id":56636,"date":"2018-07-02T02:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T02:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56636"},"modified":"2018-07-02T02:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T02:55:29","slug":"my-life-means-much-more-than-just-my-ethnicity-i-now-understand-that-i-have-the-agency-and-self-determination-to-decide-who-i-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56636","title":{"rendered":"My life means much more than just my ethnicity. I now understand that I have the agency and self-determination to decide who I want to be."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My return to GW [George Washington University] helped me find myself ways I never thought possible. I\u2019m on my way to forming a sense of self on my own terms and my life is fuller as a result. I think of myself as a traveler, a foodie, a passionate student, a news and media junkie, a social justice enthusiast and more. My life means much more than just my ethnicity. I now understand that I have the agency and self-determination to decide who I want to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mailinh McNicholas, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What It\u2019s Like Being an \u201cOther\u201d<\/a>,\u201d <em>College Magazine<\/em>, June 19, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegemagazine.com\/what-its-like-being-an-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.collegemagazine.com\/what-its-like-being-an-other<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My return to GW [George Washington University] helped me find myself ways I never thought possible. I\u2019m on my way to forming a sense of self on my own terms and my life is fuller as a result. I think of myself as a traveler, a foodie, a passionate student, a news and media junkie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20561,28793],"class_list":["post-56636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-college-magazine","tag-mailinh-mcnicholas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56636","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=56636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56637,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56636\/revisions\/56637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}