{"id":28598,"date":"2006-08-08T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2006\/08\/slip-of-the-tongue-3\/28598"},"modified":"2006-08-08T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T21:20:39","slug":"slip-of-the-tongue-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2006\/08\/28598\/slip-of-the-tongue-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Slip of the Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a video directed by Karen Lum, adapted from the poem &#8220;Slip of the Tongue&#8221; written and performed by Adriel Luis.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s great. <\/p>\n<p>I can only really speak from the experience of creepy old men saying to me &#8220;You&#8217;re mixed race, yes?&#8221; as if they&#8217;ll get some kind of prize for correctly guessing that I&#8217;m both caucasian and chinese with perhaps a bonus thrown in for being incredibly skeevy. Then there&#8217;s the wondering whether you got into a university because of your ethnicity and gender and not because of your talent &#8211; perhaps they had some kind of quota to fill.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something to think about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0d804f8926_5.\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0d804f8926_5.\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/herdivineshadow.wordpress.com\/5\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/14dd852dd9_5.\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/14dd852dd9_b-gif-host-herdivineshadow-wordpress.com&amp;blog=71014&amp;post=5&amp;subd=herdivineshadow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/herdivineshadow.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/08\/slip-of-the-tongue\/\" \/>Link to the original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a video directed by Karen Lum, adapted from the poem &#8220;Slip of the Tongue&#8221; written and performed by Adriel Luis. And it&#8217;s great. I can only really speak from the experience of creepy old men saying to me &#8220;You&#8217;re mixed race, yes?&#8221; as if they&#8217;ll get some kind of prize for correctly guessing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2006\/08\/28598\/slip-of-the-tongue-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slip of the Tongue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reblogged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}