{"id":3343,"date":"2024-06-06T22:06:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T02:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2024-06-06T22:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T02:06:57","slug":"colombia-to-america-my-parents-immigration-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/2024\/06\/06\/colombia-to-america-my-parents-immigration-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia To America (My Parents Immigration Story)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What does being an immigrant mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“An immigrant is a person who is willing to move their roots from one place to another. They are willing to start over in a new place from everything they know to something totally foreign.\u00a0“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was the most important thing to you that you had to leave behind (if any) in your home country?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My family. I went from seeing my extended family every day to seeing my family at most twice a year. Colombia is a country that puts family at its highest value so leaving them was the hardest thing to leave. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would you say was an important part of keeping your culture alive when you sought refuge in another country?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Speaking Spanish. Spanish was something I could pass down through generations that really helped preserve my family’s culture and gave my kids a connection to their family in Colombia.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it like seeing your country in headlines struggling from a faraway perspective?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s really conflicting because on hand I want to be there helping my family and contributing to society but on another hand, I thank god every day that I get to live in a calm and safe country without the worry of struggling in my home. “<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does being an immigrant mean to you? “An immigrant is a person who is willing to move their roots from one place to another. They are willing to start over in a new place from everything they know to something totally foreign.\u00a0“ What was the most important thing to you that you had to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":3344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/refugeestories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}