{"id":38342,"date":"2013-08-12T22:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T22:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38342"},"modified":"2013-08-12T22:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T22:20:38","slug":"38342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=38342","title":{"rendered":"Am I a racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pool was pretty empty &#8211; I was alone. 34 laps into my 40-lap run and feeling great. Then a swimmer came into my lane without noticing me &#8211; we almost collided. I stopped at the end waiting for him:<br \/>\n&#8220;circle or taking side?&#8221;<br \/>\nSide he wanted.<br \/>\n&#8220;Please let the swimmer know before you enter the lane &#8211; its dangerous.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s an older man who wore his black bathing cap like army beret: one side was higher than the other. He spoke with an accent. My immediate thought was: no wonder, the rude foreigner.<br \/>\nDoes this consititue racist? The last time I felt unsafe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37399\">was caused by an American<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pool was pretty empty &#8211; I was alone. 34 laps into my 40-lap run and feeling great. Then a swimmer came into my lane without noticing me &#8211; we almost collided. I stopped at the end waiting for him: &#8220;circle or taking side?&#8221; Side he wanted. &#8220;Please let the swimmer know before you enter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}