{"id":34321,"date":"2025-09-09T08:45:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34321"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:45:51","slug":"milwaukee-neh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/09\/milwaukee-neh\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee, Neh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent a picture of my youngest in his Hallowe&#8217;en costume to my brother.  The costume includes a loud shirt and a loud sports jacket, and I then asked my brother if he remembered how we got hand-me-downs from the White family who lived next door to us in the projects.  Which was true; I was pretty fly for a white guy as I got not the latest fashion, but the late fashion, which was why I wore bell bottoms in 1981&#8211;because they fit, and because Dewayne had worn them a couple years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Weren&#8217;t they black?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>I had to set him straight about some of our neighbors and schoolmates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Whites, the Browns, and the Blacks were all black.<\/li>\n<li>The Sorensons were white.<\/li>\n<li>The Kolacinskis were yellow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My brother&#8217;s best friend was in the latter family, whose father was obviously of Polish extraction who married a Chinese woman, and the three children looked more Chinese than Polish.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee, neh?  <\/p>\n<p>It was a time of America being a melting pot, unlike the stew(ing) metaphor that superseded it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent a picture of my youngest in his Hallowe&#8217;en costume to my brother. The costume includes a loud shirt and a loud sports jacket, and I then asked my brother if he remembered how we got hand-me-downs from the White family who lived next door to us in the projects. Which was true; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34322,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34321\/revisions\/34322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}