{"id":523,"date":"2024-03-30T19:20:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2024-03-30T19:20:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:20:56","slug":"breaking-boundaries-a-love-story-of-endurance-and-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/523\/breaking-boundaries-a-love-story-of-endurance-and-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Boundaries: A Love Story of Endurance and Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <picture>\r\n                <img src=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-with-no-boundaries.jpg\"\r\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-with-no-boundaries.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-with-no-boundaries-300x280.jpg 300w\"             sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\"\r\n             width=\"552\"\r\n             height=\"515\"\r\n             alt=\"love-with-no-boundaries\"\r\n             loading=\"lazy\"             decoding=\"async\"\r\n             class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-524\" >\r\n    <\/picture>\r\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Her dad told her, &#8220;If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.&#8221; Mary soon learned that most people felt the same way. The first years of their marriage living in Birmingham were hell&#8211; no one would speak to them, they couldn\u2019t find anywhere to live because no one would rent to a black man, and they had no money. But they didn&#8217;t give up.<br \/>\nGradually life became easier. Mary got teaching jobs, ending up as a deputy head teacher. Jake worked in a factory and then got a job at the Post Office. Slowly they made friends, but it was difficult. Mary used to tell people, &#8220;before I invite you to my home&#8230;. my husband is black.&#8221; Some would never talk to her again.<br \/>\nLast year they celebrated their 70th anniversary and they are still very much in love, and never regretted what they did.&#8217;\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Her dad told her, &#8220;If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.&#8221; Mary soon learned that most people felt the same way. The first years of their marriage living in Birmingham were hell&#8211; no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/523\/breaking-boundaries-a-love-story-of-endurance-and-triumph\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[524,525,401,521,60,520,527,272,78,526,523,522],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","tag-acceptance","tag-equality","tag-friendship","tag-interracial-marriage","tag-love","tag-love-story","tag-overcoming-obstacles","tag-overcoming-racism","tag-prejudics","tag-racial-equality","tag-racist","tag-resilience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}