{"id":228,"date":"2014-07-30T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2014-07-30T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T12:30:12","slug":"you-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"You Look Like&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creative-cache.biz\/donnadrewsawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/masked-image-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-cache.biz\/donnadrewsawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/masked-image-cropped.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"masked image cropped\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/masked-image-cropped.jpg 444w, https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/masked-image-cropped-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>In my novel, <em>Provenance<\/em> (Creative Cache, September 2014), several characters, during the early part of the 20th Century,\u00a0feel they must take advantage of their racial ambiguity to reach beyond what society\u00a0prescribed for them.\u00a0That was then, and it is now. Evidence,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2014\/07\/ethnic-plastic-surgery.html?mid=nymag_press\" target=\"_blank\">a recent article in New York Magazine<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0ethnic plastic surgery\u00a0to blur\u00a0racial identity. In the 21st Century,\u00a0when some have declared\u00a0that we are\u00a0post-racial, why\u00a0are we still\u00a0adding to the arsenal\u00a0of effects and affectations\u00a0used to deny\u00a0our provenance.<\/p>\n<p>Seems the themes in\u00a0my novel are as relevant as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my novel, Provenance (Creative Cache, September 2014), several characters, during the early part of the 20th Century,\u00a0feel they must take advantage of their racial ambiguity to reach beyond what society\u00a0prescribed for them.\u00a0That was then, and it is now. Evidence,\u00a0a recent article in New York Magazine\u00a0about\u00a0ethnic plastic surgery\u00a0to blur\u00a0racial identity. In the 21st Century,\u00a0when some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}