{"id":1414,"date":"2011-10-03T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2011-10-03T07:54:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T06:54:53","slug":"a-word-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/a-word-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word of Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TV presenter <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Floella_Benjamin\">Floella Benjamin<\/a> was interviewed in The Guardian Newspaper on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0She said the following about dealing with those who dislike or despise you, after arriving in the UK aged 10:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mother explained that some people would hate us because of the colour of our skin but to remember,\u00a0 &#8216;It is their problem, not yours.&#8217;\u00a0 It took me four years to understand.\u00a0 If anyone called me a name, I&#8217;d fight them.\u00a0 At 14 I realised you can&#8217;t fight the world with your fist.\u00a0 You have to fight with integrity, morality, intelligence and self confidence.\u00a0 I learned to smile and to know I was not going to be a victim.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TV presenter Floella Benjamin was interviewed in The Guardian Newspaper on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0She said the following about dealing with those who dislike or despise you, after arriving in the UK aged 10: &#8220;My mother explained that some people would hate us because of the colour of our skin but to remember,\u00a0 &#8216;It is their problem, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[50,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}