{"id":29991,"date":"2015-05-03T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29991"},"modified":"2015-05-03T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:17:51","slug":"pigmentation-pigeonholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/05\/pigmentation-pigeonholes.html","title":{"rendered":"Pigmentation Pigeonholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29995\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/Skin-and-eye-pigmentation-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Skin and eye pigmentation\" width=\"649\" height=\"365\"><\/p>\n<p>The quote is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/2015\/04\/newsworthy.html#comment-1993828995\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">something I wrote in a comment<\/a> discussing racism.<\/p>\n<p>The photo comes from a <a href=\"http:\/\/afritorial.com\/black-people-with-blue-eyes\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a> which quite bizarrely asks whether dark skin with blue eyes has a \u201cnatural explanation\u201d or is due to genetic mutation!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quote is based on something I wrote in a comment discussing racism. 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