{"id":8437,"date":"2009-03-10T19:21:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T03:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2009-03-10T19:21:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T03:21:48","slug":"am-i-african-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8437","title":{"rendered":"Am I African-American?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boss calls. &quot;Are you going to make calls tonight?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &quot;Yeah.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Boss: &quot;I need to know. Are you going to make the calls?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &quot;Yeah.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Boss: &quot;Did you have a stroke? Where&#8217;s the enthusiasm in your voice? You have to make the calls so I can get paid and you can get paid.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &quot;When&#8217;s my next check?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Boss: &quot;I just paid you less than a month ago.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &quot;Yeah, but I&#8217;m putting in an awful lot of hours on your Facebook projects.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Boss: &quot;You need to see a dermatologist. There&#8217;s a startling amount of melatonin in your blood.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &quot;Why you say that?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Boss: &quot;You&#8217;re black. You&#8217;re African-American. You have an African-American work ethic. You&#8217;re just like the inner city kids my mother worked with in the public school system. Now make the calls.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boss calls. &quot;Are you going to make calls tonight?&quot; Luke: &quot;Yeah.&quot; Boss: &quot;I need to know. Are you going to make the calls?&quot; Luke: &quot;Yeah.&quot; Boss: &quot;Did you have a stroke? Where&#8217;s the enthusiasm in your voice? You have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[16660,13113,16659,16662,16661],"class_list":["post-8437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-american-boss","tag-american-work-ethic","tag-inner-city-kids","tag-melatonin","tag-public-school-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437","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=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8438,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}