{"id":2761,"date":"2008-09-07T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2008\/09\/07\/havent-been-called-middle-eastern-in-a-long-while\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T13:45:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:45:54","slug":"havent-been-called-middle-eastern-in-a-long-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2008\/09\/07\/havent-been-called-middle-eastern-in-a-long-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Haven&#8217;t Been Called Middle Eastern In a Long While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was invited to dinner at Nasrin&#8217;s last night. Some others from the neighborhood were invited as well. I got to tell the story I formerly blogged about in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2007\/10\/20\/melungeon\/\">Melungeon post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laurie: Ezra, where are you from?<br \/>\nEzra: Right here, born and raised.<br \/>\nLaurie: Oh&#8230; Where are your parents from?<br \/>\nEzra: Dad is from here. Mom was a military brat, so she&#8217;s not really from anywhere.<br \/>\nLaurie (<em>Getting visibly confused&#8230; Long pause.<\/em>): Okay, I&#8217;ll just say it. Why do you look like that?<br \/>\nEzra: Oh, okay! I understand now. My father is black. My mother is white.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was shock on various faces. More so on the trio who had never previously met me. None had thought I was black. They had thought me maybe Middle Eastern. Like maybe I was related to Nasrin? ROFL<\/p>\n<p>The only time anyone has ever thought I\u00c2\u00a0am from the Middle East was back in college. Rahat, I\u00c2\u00a0think, who was from Saudi Arabia wanted to know when I\u00c2\u00a0was going to apply for my work permit to stay in the US. LOL It turns out he knew I knew so many people from the Middle East, he assumed I was as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was invited to dinner at Nasrin&#8217;s last night. Some others from the neighborhood were invited as well. I got to tell the story I formerly blogged about in the Melungeon post: Laurie: Ezra, where are you from? Ezra: Right here, born and raised. Laurie: Oh&#8230; Where are your parents from? Ezra: Dad is from here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[977,205],"tags":[1150,123],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-livejournal","category-race-racism","tag-black","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-Ix","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}