{"id":57958,"date":"2019-04-20T01:06:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57958"},"modified":"2019-04-20T01:06:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:06:39","slug":"i-could-imagine-the-disapproval-he-would-have-shown-for-my-future-husband-and-son-simply-because-they-are-black-the-thought-was-unbearable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57958","title":{"rendered":"I could imagine the disapproval he would have shown for my future husband and son simply because they are black. The thought was unbearable."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I could imagine the disapproval he [my stepfather] would have shown for my future husband and son simply because they are black. The thought was unbearable. Determined not to let a deceased man\u2019s ideas control my life, I decided I would gather my immediate family to be open with them about my love and my pregnancy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tina Chang, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, April 19, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/19\/style\/modern-love-no-more-hiding-my-son-or-my-love.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/19\/style\/modern-love-no-more-hiding-my-son-or-my-love.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could imagine the disapproval he [my stepfather] would have shown for my future husband and son simply because they are black. The thought was unbearable. Determined not to let a deceased man\u2019s ideas control my life, I decided I would gather my immediate family to be open with them about my love and my [&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":[2640,2327,29716],"class_list":["post-57958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-tina-chang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57958","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=57958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57959,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57958\/revisions\/57959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}