{"id":1527,"date":"1999-04-17T21:56:56","date_gmt":"1999-04-17T21:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1999\/04\/17\/letter-to-the-editor-multiracial-box\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T23:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T23:13:30","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-multiracial-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1999\/04\/17\/letter-to-the-editor-multiracial-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Multiracial Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:56:56 -0700 (PDT)<br \/>From: John Cavazos<br \/>Subject: Letter to the Editor<\/p>\n<p>Has there been a consertive effort by Multiracial peoples to lobby for a<br \/>Multiracial box to check off when filling out forms?&nbsp; As a<br \/>Irish\/Mexican\/Indian\/French Canadian\/Sephardic Jew, I have a difficult time<br \/>filling out these forms, so I usually mark other.&nbsp; Now that I&#39;m married to a<br \/>West Indian\/Chinese\/Scottish\/Spanish\/East Indian woman and we have two children,<br \/>imagine the schizophrenia that goes on around our house when it comes time to<br \/>fill out school forms, etc&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong>&nbsp; Over the last few years much has been done in this regard.&nbsp; See:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/involved.html\"><u><font color=\"#0000ff\">How to Get Involved in the Multiracial Movement<\/font><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:56:56 -0700 (PDT)From: John CavazosSubject: Letter to the Editor Has there been a consertive effort by Multiracial peoples to lobby for aMultiracial box to check off when filling out&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-oD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}