{"id":28060,"date":"2021-09-20T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/interviews-with-black-americans-about-what-its-like-to-live-in-japan#id30619"},"modified":"2021-09-20T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:16:00","slug":"living-in-japan-as-an-african-american-ive-honestly-never-felt-more-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/living-in-japan-as-an-african-american-ive-honestly-never-felt-more-free\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLiving in Japan, as an African-American, I\u2019ve honestly never felt more free.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uMpxLmMnS6M?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From NPR, interviews with Black Americans about what it&#39;s like to live in Japan instead of the United States. &#8220;We&#39;ve been trained, we&#39;ve been programmed, that people are afraid of us. Here, I don&#39;t get that. I feel good here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/21\/09\/living-while-black-in-japan\">Kottke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/interviews-with-black-americans-about-what-its-like-to-live-in-japan\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR, interviews with Black Americans about what it&#8217;s like to live in Japan instead of the United States. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been trained, we&#8217;ve been programmed, that people are afraid of us. Here, I don&#8217;t get that. I feel good here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/21\/09\/living-while-black-in-japan\">Kottke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/interviews-with-black-americans-about-what-its-like-to-live-in-japan\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28061,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060\/revisions\/28061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}