{"id":22704,"date":"2011-03-25T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T14:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22704"},"modified":"2011-03-25T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T14:41:18","slug":"speaking-of-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22704","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>95-year-old Leeland Davidson, a World War II veteran discovered that his Iowa-born parents hadn&#8217;t registered his birth in Canada, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thelookout\/20110324\/us_yblog_thelookout\/wwii-vet-discovers-hes-not-a-u-s-citizen\">so he finds himself trying to become a citizen late in life<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Schoolcraft says they tried to dissuade him from pursuing the matter. Employees at the local passport office scared them, telling her father &#8220;If he pursued it, (he could) possibly be deported or [be] at risk of losing Social Security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We keep telling him, leave it alone, leave it alone, and he won&#8217;t, like a dog with a bone,&#8221; Schoolcraft told the Centralia Chronicle. But Davidson says: &#8220;I want to get it done before I die.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to ROS, Old Trooper and Gary for the link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>95-year-old Leeland Davidson, a World War II veteran discovered that his Iowa-born parents hadn&#8217;t registered his &hellip; <a title=\"Speaking of citizenship\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22704\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaking of citizenship<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}