{"id":595,"date":"2008-02-14T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2008-02-14T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:25:00","slug":"ode-to-interracial-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/02\/14\/ode-to-interracial-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Interracial Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R7Rt1UxTREI\/AAAAAAAAA_E\/v_6GRwemy3Q\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R7Rt1UxTREI\/AAAAAAAAA_E\/v_6GRwemy3Q\/s200\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>That gal Courtney has done it again.  Though we don&#8217;t necessarily agree on choice of candidates, we&#8217;ve been having a great offline discussion about it all of late. And today, Courtney&#8217;s beautiful ode to her dude Obama, which is really an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinions\/2008\/02\/14\/2008-02-14_send_obama_a_valentine_for_shining_light.html\">ode to interracial love, has been published in the New York Daily News<\/a>.  Read it and, with me, get misty.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m on it and feeling all Valentiney today, thought I&#8217;d share something I wrote last spring, when Marco moved in with me and bought me a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mezuzah\">mezuzah<\/a> as a gift:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic\">IMAGINE my surprise. You, a Puerto Rican from the South (let me say it) Bronx who had never attended a seder, never set foot in a synagogue, who knew Judaism as H&amp;H bagels, Hollywood moguls, and odd looking men in black hats. You, a curious blend of cocoa bean, Cuban rhythm, good ole American diner, and deco movie palace. With you, I find myself able to share &#8212; and dig into &#8212; my Jewishness in a way I hadn&#8217;t with the earnest parade of appropriate Jewish suitors and boyfriends and yes, one highly appropriate husband, who preceded you. One marriage down, a Jewish divorce behind me, and a life of wonder ahead, I consider you, oddly, my guide&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Love you, babe!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That gal Courtney has done it again. Though we don&#8217;t necessarily agree on choice of candidates, we&#8217;ve been having a great offline discussion about it all of late. And today, Courtney&#8217;s beautiful ode to her dude Obama, which is really an ode to interracial love, has been published in the New York Daily News. Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21733],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-racial-equality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}