{"id":380416,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/380416/?format=json","airdate":"2019-09-13T13:33:00-07:00","show":6330,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6330/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Jicama","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Angelica Garcia","artist_ids":["11dee790-19d5-4afb-bff7-fd85115e3ed3"],"album":"","release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":["Spacebomb Records"],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"1950-01-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Richmond, VA-based musician Angelica Garcia had this to say about \"Jicama\": <br><br>\"This song is about not being seen for having a dual identity. When you don’t feel seen, you don’t feel accepted for who you are. In my case, I’m American, but I am also Mexican & Salvadoran because of my family blood. Though people often don’t know where to put me, I proudly wear both sides of my identity. The U.S. is a country made up of people from other countries. This song and video are a love letter to kids who grew up embracing two worlds just like me. Seems like many people in power are concerned with preserving some sort of ideal American identity— but our identity as a country is complex. Accepting and enforcing just one perspective is often just a guise for racism and xenophobia. To knock my family and I down for our Latinx roots is to knock down all of America’s history. Like many, I was born in this country.\"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}