{"id":7067,"date":"2013-03-04T22:27:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T02:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2013-03-04T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T02:45:49","slug":"unrepresented-black-faces-in-tt-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7067","title":{"rendered":"Unrepresented Black Faces in T&#038;T Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7067\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trinidad and Tobago Residental Telephone Directory 2013 Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/telephonebook2013.jpg\" title=\"Image of the Trinidad and Tobago Residental Telephone Directory 2013 Cover\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 T&amp;T Residental Telephone Directory 2013 Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nEDITOR: I have just viewed the Trinidad and Tobago Residential Telephone Directory 2013 for the first time. The image consists of 6 faces. I wonder what percentage of Africans and Indians are dark-skinned in Trinidad and Tobago?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI also would like to know why so many promotional advertisements in the country are not representative of the dark-skinned black aspect of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Akilah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR: I have just viewed the Trinidad and Tobago Residential Telephone Directory 2013 for the first time. The image consists of 6 faces. I wonder what percentage of Africans and Indians are dark-skinned in Trinidad and Tobago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[479,1,154,632],"tags":[104,844,843],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-general-tt","category-race-and-identity","category-racism-watch","tag-african","tag-akilah","tag-tt-ads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7074,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}