{"id":495,"date":"2012-06-06T21:58:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T01:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2012-06-06T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T01:58:03","slug":"grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EXCERPT FROM AUNT GRACE&#8217;S WRITINGS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I cherish my aunt&#8217;s stories. As I write mine<em>, Love Imagined<\/em>, I try to make sense of how my mother&#8217;s &#8220;secret&#8221; family has influenced me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grandfather Grandmother and Baby<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Grandparents1.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-505\" title=\"Grandfather Grandmother Aunt\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Grandparents1.bmp\" alt=\"Grandmother Grandfather Aunt\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mama&#8217;s mother was a brown skinned girl of fifteen when the red-haired plantation owner&#8217;s son lured her with a ham and his own char-r-min self.\u00a0 Perhaps, too, she was flattered by this attention.\u00a0 At any rate, Mama was conceived and came into the world the only light face among many black children. She had a rather rough time of it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>-Grace Williams<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sherry Quan Lee<\/p>\n<p>Posted 6\/6\/2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT FROM AUNT GRACE&#8217;S WRITINGS I cherish my aunt&#8217;s stories. As I write mine, Love Imagined, I try to make sense of how my mother&#8217;s &#8220;secret&#8221; family has influenced me: Grandfather Grandmother and Baby &nbsp; Mama&#8217;s mother was a brown skinned girl of fifteen when the red-haired plantation owner&#8217;s son &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=495\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,34,13],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-imagined","tag-memoir","tag-mixed-race","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}