{"id":2776,"date":"2019-03-06T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2019-03-06T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:02:06","slug":"infinity-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2019\/03\/infinity-stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinity stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bonaly\u2019s comments call to mind the \u201ctwice as good\u201d narrative, in which black people aspiring to white-dominated fields have to continually exceed expectations to be as successful as their white peers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/122561\/back-flipping-black-figure-skater-who-changed-sport-forever\">The Rebellious, Back-Flipping Black Figure Skater Who Changed the Sport Forever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Our crew had Jews, Asians, women (still a rarity in the kitchen), and me, a black Swede. Maybe he figured that <strong>if we\u2019d made it that far without the advantage of being in the majority, there was a chance we had both resilience and ambition<\/strong>, both of which he demanded.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yes-Chef-Memoir-Marcus-Samuelsson\/dp\/0385342616\">Yes, Chef a memoir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems pretty reasonable and easy to get around the idea that minorities who stick to something for years or decades are more than probably strong, dedicated folks.<\/p>\n<p>But man, it\u2019s hard to convince people.<\/p>\n<p>I had an onsite interview not so long ago. Everything looking good. It goes well. They need someone 12 days later. I thank them. Check in 10 days later. They ghost me the whole time. The end.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so hard on the mind, I\u2019m not going to lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonaly\u2019s comments call to mind the \u201ctwice as good\u201d narrative, in which black people aspiring to white-dominated fields have to continually exceed expectations to be as successful as their white peers. The Rebellious, Back-Flipping Black Figure Skater Who Changed the Sport Forever. Our crew had Jews, Asians, women (still a rarity in the kitchen), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}