{"id":9466,"date":"2013-09-12T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9466"},"modified":"2013-09-12T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T20:00:56","slug":"augustseptember-2013-antonio-zapien-my-love-letter-to-americafrom-anne-crosmans-the-new-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/augustseptember-2013-antonio-zapien-my-love-letter-to-americafrom-anne-crosmans-the-new-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"(August\/September 2013) Antonio Zapien: My Love Letter to America\u2026From Anne Crosman\u2019s \u201cThe New Immigrants\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong>&#8220;<em>For some people, number thirteen is a bad luck number. Not for me. At that age, I met an American couple who changed my life forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was born in a Mexican rural town, the second son of a young campesino couple; my sister died a few months after being born. My mother was seventeen years old when I was born.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My father was a migrant agricultural worker, every year coming to the US, looking for work, and after a few months, with some savings, going back home. I remember walking with him to the outside of the small town, waiting for a bus to come. He left, going again to the US. That was the last time I saw him. I was almost six years old&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Antonio&#8217;s story, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/antonio-zapien-my-love-letter-to-america-from-anne-crosmans-the-new-immigrants\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9467\" alt=\"annecrosmanbook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/annecrosmanbook.png\" width=\"507\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/annecrosmanbook.png 800w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/annecrosmanbook-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/antonio-zapien-my-love-letter-to-america-from-anne-crosmans-the-new-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/08\/01\/antonio-zapien-my-love-letter-to-america-from-anne-crosmans-the-new-immigrants\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;For some people, number thirteen is a bad luck number. Not for me. At that age, I met an American couple who changed my life forever. I was born in a Mexican rural town, the second son of a young campesino couple; my sister died a few months after being born. My mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9630,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9466\/revisions\/9630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}