{"id":246502,"date":"2020-06-25T05:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T12:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=246502"},"modified":"2020-06-25T05:15:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T12:15:12","slug":"in-praise-of-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/25\/in-praise-of-hybrid\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of HYBRID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Mixed&#8217; sounds bad. Hybrid is good. Some thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hybrid as a &#8216;mongrel&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hybrida#Latin\">Hybrida<\/a> in Latin &#8212; not a nice compliment. It essentially means &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mongrel\">mongrel<\/a>&#8216; [a slur for a mixed person of uncertain origin]. &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mong#English\">Mong<\/a>&#8216; means mixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A class issue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Ancient Rome, if you were a &#8216;hybrid&#8217;, you were essentially either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1. Born of a free man + slave<\/li><li>or<\/li><li>2. Born of a Roman father and a foreign mother<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The romans cared about Rome above all. In some ways &#8230; to be Roman was your &#8216;race&#8217;. My theory still holds strong &#8212; I believe we Americans should believe in the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/the-american-race\/\">American Race<\/a>&#8216; if we truly desire to squelch racism and all this other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Mixed&#8217; sounds bad. Hybrid is good. Some thoughts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AE209966-719C-4097-897F-69F9ADB935A3.jpeg?fit=1500%2C1463&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246521,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246502\/revisions\/246521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}