{"id":119543,"date":"2017-12-29T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=119543"},"modified":"2017-12-29T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:06:38","slug":"the-orientals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=119543","title":{"rendered":"The Orientals"},"content":{"rendered":"

* “The Orientals are\u2014well, discreet\u2019s not really the word, but they aren\u2019t like the Negroes and the Jews, they don\u2019t push in where they\u2019re not wanted.”<\/p>\n

Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays <\/p>\n

* “It is not that Punahou is not still the school of the Island power elite; it is. \u201cThere will always be room at Punahou for those children who belong here,\u201d Dr. John Fox, headmaster since 1944, assured alumni in a recent bulletin. But where in 1944 there were 1,100 students and they had a median IQ of 108, now there are 3,400 with a median IQ of 125. Where once the enrollment was ten percent Oriental, now it is a fraction under thirty percent.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* “The Orientals are\u2014well, discreet\u2019s not really the word, but they aren\u2019t like the Negroes and the Jews, they don\u2019t push in where they\u2019re not wanted.” Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays * “It is not that Punahou is not … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asians"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119546,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119543\/revisions\/119546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}