{"id":59472,"date":"2020-02-03T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59472"},"modified":"2020-02-03T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:07:08","slug":"the-best-thing-about-it-is-youre-showing-kids-that-no-matter-where-you-grow-up-what-race-you-are-that-you-can-achieve-your-dream-for-me-being-a-black-quarterb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59472","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe best thing about it is you\u2019re showing kids that no matter where you grow up, what race you are, that you can achieve your dream&#8230;\u201d \u201cFor me, being a black quarterback \u2014 having a black dad and a white mom \u2014 it just shows that it doesn\u2019t matter where you come from.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe best thing about it is you\u2019re showing kids that no matter where you grow up, what race you are, that you can achieve your dream,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLonCBS\/status\/1219009563862528000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Patrick] Mahomes<\/a> said during the lead-up to the Super Bowl. \u201cFor me, being a black quarterback \u2014 having a black dad and a white mom \u2014 it just shows that it doesn\u2019t matter where you come from.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jason Reid, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Mahomes ushers in Era of the Black Quarterback<\/a>,\u201d The Undefeated, February 2, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/theundefeated.com\/features\/patrick-mahomes-ushers-in-era-of-the-black-quarterback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theundefeated.com\/features\/patrick-mahomes-ushers-in-era-of-the-black-quarterback\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe best thing about it is you\u2019re showing kids that no matter where you grow up, what race you are, that you can achieve your dream,\u201d [Patrick] Mahomes said during the lead-up to the Super Bowl. \u201cFor me, being a black quarterback \u2014 having a black dad and a white mom \u2014 it just shows [&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":[30719,30709,25860],"class_list":["post-59472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-jason-reid","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-the-undefeated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59472","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=59472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59473,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59472\/revisions\/59473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}