{"id":239,"date":"2016-11-24T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/24\/an-immigrant-gives-thanks\/"},"modified":"2016-11-24T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:24:00","slug":"an-immigrant-gives-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/24\/an-immigrant-gives-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"An Immigrant Gives Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When we crossed the border many years ago seeking a new life it wasn&#8217;t glamorous and uncertainty was high. Our parents had a dream though and they hoped we&#8217;d realize it.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Their hopes were simple.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Contribute positively to the community that may adopt you, act in accordance to a set of commandments and educate yourselves so that you may educate others. My father knew he may not get to today with us but if he had he&#8217;d see something I consider special. All his immigrant children now adopted into the community of Citizenship coming together with families to give Thanks.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He isn&#8217;t though so I get to share with others the pride he would have certainly felt because I know I do.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thank you America!<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HxT9oQKtv8E\/WDnOBkvng4I\/AAAAAAAB9gs\/jdshF-BwCXwUv-2XhYFwuIBfSi825hODQCLcB\/s1600\/2015-09-20%2B10.29.41.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HxT9oQKtv8E\/WDnOBkvng4I\/AAAAAAAB9gs\/jdshF-BwCXwUv-2XhYFwuIBfSi825hODQCLcB\/s640\/2015-09-20%2B10.29.41.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we crossed the border many years ago seeking a new life it wasn&#8217;t glamorous and uncertainty was high. Our parents had a dream though and they hoped we&#8217;d realize it.&nbsp; Their hopes were simple.&nbsp; Contribute positively to the community that may adopt you, act in accordance to a set of commandments and educate yourselves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/24\/an-immigrant-gives-thanks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Immigrant Gives Thanks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[395,483,89,394,81,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}