{"id":323,"date":"2003-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2003\/01\/01\/muscogee-blood-quantum\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T08:13:16","slug":"muscogee-blood-quantum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/01\/01\/muscogee-blood-quantum\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscogee Blood Quantum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><H1>Poem: Muscogee Blood Quantum<\/H1><\/center> <\/p>\n<h3><I>by <A HREF=\"mailto:deesde@gse.harvard.edu\">Deidra Suwanee Dees<\/A><\/I><\/h3>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p> Muscogee blood quantum <br \/> higher than mine, <\/p>\n<p> she colors her hair yellow <br \/> to <br \/> cover her Indianess,<\/p>\n<p> Muscogee blood quantum <br \/> lower than hers,<\/p>\n<p> I color my hair black to <br \/> cover <br \/> my<br \/>  whiteness;<\/p>\n<p> powerful Muscogee women,<br \/> yet we color our identity <\/p>\n<p> because of our whiteness<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small><small><small><font face=\"Tahoma\">Copyright \u00a9 2003 Deidra Suwanee Dees and The Multiracial Activist. All rights reserved.<\/font><\/small><\/small> <\/small><\/font><\/b>  {jos_sb_discuss:2}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem: Muscogee Blood Quantum by Deidra Suwanee Dees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5816,"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":[5],"tags":[94,110],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tma-articles-and-commentary","tag-poetry","tag-the-multiracial-activist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/08\/Articles-and-Commentary.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-5d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}