{"id":157300,"date":"2011-12-11T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdb4980b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-12-11T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T22:24:00","slug":"bdb4981f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bdb4981f-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Term of endearment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Brooks\u2019 response to Paul Beebe on the Tuesday edition has a disclaimer about using a racist term save his use of Uncle Ben, which in some places does have racist connotations. We do not disagree, but we differ in that it is also a term of endearment in many places in Asia\u2014Uncle and Auntie being a honorific title to anyone one considers as belonging to one&#8217;s kind, racial or otherwise. There is a double entendre usage, perhaps, with regards to &#8220;Uncle Ben,&#8221; our governor, but then, paradoxes is a common fare in this part of the world, the taiji\/yin-yang, being the primary symbol in East Asia. So references to Uncle Ben might be needling, after a fashion, at least, from our end, but it is not meant to be unkind.<\/p>\n<p>[B]Jaime Vergara[\/B]<br \/>\n[I]via email[\/I]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Brooks\u2019 response to Paul Beebe on the Tuesday edition has a disclaimer about using a racist term save his use of Uncle Ben, which in some places does have racist connotations. We do not disagree, but we differ in that it is also a term of endearment in many places in Asia\u2014Uncle and Auntie being a honorific title to anyone one considers as belonging to one&#8217;s kind, racial or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}