{"id":5026,"date":"2005-07-24T18:19:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T18:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2021-06-13T17:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T17:40:47","slug":"mixed-race-marriages-and-tolerance-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2005\/07\/24\/mixed-race-marriages-and-tolerance-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race marriages &#8212; and tolerance &#8212; soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Herrmann of the Chicago Sun-Times on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-marry24new.html\">Mixed-race marriages &#8212; and tolerance &#8212; soar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Irene Carr&#8217;s father was a minister, but he could not perform her marriage ceremony. He couldn&#8217;t because it was illegal in the 1950s for interracial couples to wed in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Irene is white; her now-deceased husband, Leon, a steelworker, was black. They eventually married in Chicago and reared three sons. When one told them he knew of no mom or dad like his, they helped start a support organization for biracial couples like themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Contrary to the wishes of the hard left and hard right, people are blurring the lines and giving neo-segregationists the finger. Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-marry24new.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Herrmann of the Chicago Sun-Times on Mixed-race marriages &#8212; and tolerance &#8212; soar: Irene Carr&#8217;s father was a minister, but he could not perform her marriage ceremony. He couldn&#8217;t because it was illegal&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,141],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-5026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-news-clips","tag-interracial-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1j4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}