{"id":4998,"date":"2020-02-27T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2020-02-27T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T15:00:55","slug":"passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2020\/02\/passing\/","title":{"rendered":"passing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>reading father boyle talk about his gang members, i feel so much kinship. I&#8217;ve got these stories too<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and it&#8217;s awkward. I dont&#8217; look like i do. I don&#8217;t have tatoos on my face or anywhere. I look extremely acceptable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But i know that i have stories that freak people out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can pass. I can make my hair shiny sometimes, and i have a vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I passed passing and now make people uncomfortable the other direction. people say &#8220;I appreciate you being so on top of things&#8221; which is another way of saying &#8220;can&#8217;t you slow down and back off?&#8221;<br><br>I know there is a shadowy figure that people see that they think I am.<br><br>I can pass as someone worth feeding. but it&#8217;s tenuous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>because it takes a lot of effort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reading father boyle talk about his gang members, i feel so much kinship. I&#8217;ve got these stories too and it&#8217;s awkward. I dont&#8217; look like i do. I don&#8217;t have tatoos on my face or anywhere. I look extremely acceptable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2020\/02\/passing\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4999,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}