{"id":1013,"date":"2020-01-13T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2020-01-13T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:37:16","slug":"jayde-stedford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/2020\/01\/13\/jayde-stedford\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayde Stedford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/366\/2020\/01\/dropboxcueb201911.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1014\" width=\"437\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/366\/2020\/01\/dropboxcueb201911.jpg 750w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/366\/2020\/01\/dropboxcueb201911-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/366\/2020\/01\/dropboxcueb201911-700x387.jpg 700w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/366\/2020\/01\/dropboxcueb201911-332x184.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have pictures of myself on the Great Wall, in the Summer Palace and at the Temple of Heaven yet this picture is by far my favourite. We had just seen a Traditional Chinese dance performance at the Confucius Temple when a group of Chinese schoolchildren pointed and ran up to me smiling and laughing. They were so excited to see someone like me and that excitement escalated when I began to speak to them in Mandarin. The children, aged 10-12 years old, had come to Beijing on a school trip from Guangdong province. I have always wanted to go to China and have thought about working there in the future; by talking to these children, and many other people in China, I quickly realised how few black people they seem to encounter. Yet, these children were not scared of me because I was black nor had any negative perception of me; they were just excited to talk to someone who looked very different to them and I thought that was beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have pictures of myself on the Great Wall, in the Summer Palace and at the Temple of Heaven yet this picture is by far my favourite. We had just seen a Traditional Chinese dance performance at the Confucius Temple when a group of Chinese schoolchildren pointed and ran up to me smiling and laughing. They were so excited to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4078,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cueb-student-blogs-2019","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/366\/2020\/01\/dropboxcueb201911.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/fss-summerschools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}