{"id":2340,"date":"2010-05-05T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T22:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/2340"},"modified":"2010-05-05T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T22:46:43","slug":"exiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/05\/05\/exiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Exiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading to O&#8217;Hare airport by cab, we hit a wall of traffic. The driver recommends dropping me off at a train station. He&#8217;d heard me speaking in Spanish and asks me where I am from. I say Cuba, he says Somalia. I ask him how he likes the Chicago winters and he says he goes to Dubai for the winters to visit his mother who is also exiled. He says he can&#8217;t visit his country or he&#8217;ll be shot. As I get out I say I look forward to the day when he and I can both visit our homelands. He laughs. As I write this on a train in Chicago headed to a plane to Los Angeles I have tears in my eyes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading to O&#8217;Hare airport by cab, we hit a wall of traffic. The driver recommends dropping me off at a train station. He&#8217;d heard me speaking in Spanish and asks me where I am from. I say Cuba, he says Somalia. I ask him how he likes the Chicago winters and he says he goes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}