{"id":837,"date":"2004-04-20T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:33:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:33:21","slug":"837","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/20\/837\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Little Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2004\/04\/welcome.html\" target=\"new\">Blackfive reports<\/a> on U.S. citizenship granted to Laotian Hmong refugees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The reward for helping the Americans during the Vietnam War took 29 years to materialize, but for the 15,000 Laotian Hmong in this sun-baked refugee camp, it was a payout beyond their wildest dreams: U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ll be Americans,&#8221; said Sui Yang, 60, who fought with CIA-backed Hmong guerrillas against the communist Pathet Lao in the mountains of Laos. &#8220;We heard rumors for years this was going to happen, but they were always only rumors. Most of us gave up hoping. I thought we were going nowhere.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got three words that express my sentiment for earnest immigrants, particularly those who helped the United States in the past, who would come to this country with hope of a better life and the will to make it so:<\/p>\n<p><b>Bring &#8217;em on.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackfive reports on U.S. citizenship granted to Laotian Hmong refugees: The reward for helping the Americans during the Vietnam War took 29 years to materialize, but for the 15,000 Laotian Hmong in this sun-baked refugee camp, it was a payout beyond their wildest dreams: U.S. citizenship. &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ll be Americans,&#8221; said Sui Yang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23422,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/23422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}