{"id":739,"date":"2014-07-21T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2014-07-21T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T22:12:15","slug":"a-chinamans-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/a-chinamans-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinaman’s chance"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an article in the Atlantic<\/a> with this gem in it:<\/p>\n

Wing Luke, the first Asian American elected to the Seattle City Council (or to any office in the entire Northwest) in 1962. When he was running, a white politico told him he didn’t have a Chinaman’s chance of winning the election. Luke replied, without missing a beat, \u201cOn the contrary\u2014I am the only one with a Chinaman’s chance.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is an article in the Atlantic with this gem in it: Wing Luke, the first Asian American elected to the Seattle City Council (or to any office in the entire Northwest) in 1962. When he was running, a white politico told him he didn’t have a Chinaman’s chance of winning the election. Luke replied, without missing a beat, \u201cOn the contrary\u2014I am the only one with a Chinaman’s chance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-bV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":995,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/circles\/","url_meta":{"origin":739,"position":0},"title":"Circles","author":"David Raffin","date":"May 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The test says \u201cDo not spend too much time on any one question. 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