{"id":8550,"date":"2010-07-11T07:48:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8550"},"modified":"2010-07-11T07:48:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T12:48:28","slug":"strangers-in-the-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8550","title":{"rendered":"Strangers in the parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tin and I were walking into Elmwood Fitness yesterday for his fourth and last installment of swim lessons before we leave for the sunny beaches of Europe and a handsome black man headed to his car stopped and looked at us as we passed. Just passed him, he said, &#8220;You never see a white woman carrying a black baby.&#8221; I just smiled at him and said, &#8220;You do now.&#8221; He then said, &#8220;He yours?&#8221; and I said, &#8220;100%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is better than the last woman who asked me if I am Tin&#8217;s grandmother. I&#8217;ll take the black white confusion over the age one any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tin and I were walking into Elmwood Fitness yesterday for his fourth and last installment of swim lessons before we leave for the sunny beaches of Europe and a handsome black man headed to his car stopped and looked at us as we passed. Just passed him, he said, &#8220;You never see a white woman carrying a black baby.&#8221; I just smiled at him and said, &#8220;You do now.&#8221; He then said, &#8220;He yours?&#8221; and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8552,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions\/8552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}