{"id":57296,"date":"2019-01-19T00:34:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T00:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57296"},"modified":"2019-01-19T00:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T00:35:11","slug":"allure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57296","title":{"rendered":"Allure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allure<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Medium<\/a>
\n2019-01-07<\/p>\n

Fanny Elisabeth Garvey<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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For A., C., C., J., and S., who see the beauty in me.<\/em><\/p>\n

II. ALLURE<\/strong><\/p>\n

2018. Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wanted so badly to ask her how she does it that I sat there feeling stupidly desperate.<\/p>\n

This beautiful woman sitting next to me at the table.<\/p>\n

The kind of woman of whom people say: There\u2019s simply something just so alluring about her.<\/p>\n

How, I wondered, could she be so cool, so calm, so black, so beautiful, in her halter top evening gown, with her braided hair falling elegantly down around her shoulders and her skin glowing smooth, dark brown and silky as a mink?<\/p>\n

She and I were the only black folk in the place.<\/p>\n

No one noticed this except me.<\/p>\n

Well.<\/p>\n

Maybe she did….<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For A., C., C., J., and S., who see the beauty in me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[29260,18537],"class_list":["post-57296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-fanny-elisabeth-garvey","tag-medium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296","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=57296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57298,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296\/revisions\/57298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}