{"id":57905,"date":"2019-04-12T02:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T02:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57905"},"modified":"2019-06-02T01:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T01:22:25","slug":"the-day-i-became-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57905","title":{"rendered":"The Day I Became Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sohoplayhouse.com\/the-day-i-became-black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Day I Became Black<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sohoplayhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soho Playhouse<\/a><br \/>\n15 Vandam Street<br \/>\nNew York, New York 10013<br \/>\nTelephone: (212) 691-1555<br \/>\n<strong>2019-04-12 through 2019-04-19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/314053074\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\" style=\"width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bi-racial comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billposley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Posley<\/a> grew up happily identifying as both black and white. But at age 10, he learned the world does, in fact, judge a book by its color and, even though he&#8217;s half white, he&#8217;s labeled 100% black. Does a young comedian have to get rid of his whiteness in order to be the color he&#8217;s &#8220;supposed&#8221; to be? Hear Posley weigh in on the modern-day conversation about race from a unique perspective.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sohoplayhouse.com\/the-day-i-became-black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does a young comedian have to get rid of his whiteness in order to be the color he&#8217;s &#8220;supposed&#8221; to be? Hear Posley weigh in on the modern-day conversation about race from a unique perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,13,8,20],"tags":[29700,29699],"class_list":["post-57905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bill-posley","tag-soho-playhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57905","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=57905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57906,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57905\/revisions\/57906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}