{"id":1026,"date":"2011-03-07T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2011-05-05T13:20:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T21:20:35","slug":"her-beautiful-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/her-beautiful-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Beautiful Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"jo\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/2\/josie rocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lately my three-year-old brown baby has become aware of skin color. She points out all the black children at the pool and the store. Sometimes she seems pulled toward them. Other times she seems not to have any interest, she\u2019s just pointing out a fact.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I bought the new Mavis Staples CD. When Josie asks for her it comes out sounding like <em>mabitaple<\/em> and she always wants to listen to her LOUD. I\u2019ve told her teachers and grandparents that if they can\u2019t figure out what she\u2019s saying, she\u2019s probably asking for Mavis.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d only listened to the CD a few times when Josie found the jewel case sitting on the front seat of my car. She picked it up and stared at the picture of Mavis. We talked about how pretty she is \u2013 what a nice smile she has. Josie started calling Mavis her <em>bootiful fwiend<\/em> and carrying the case around, holding it close to her chest.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the post, click on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/mybrownbaby.com\/2011\/03\/when-black-children-notice-skin-color\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.mybrownbaby.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately my three-year-old brown baby has become aware of skin color. She points out all the black children at the pool and the store. Sometimes she seems pulled toward them. Other times she seems not to have any interest, she\u2019s just pointing out a fact. A few weeks ago, I bought the new Mavis Staples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,10,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-mom","category-bi-racial-family","category-parenting","category-popular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}