{"id":224,"date":"2013-07-22T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindythomson.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/22\/do-native-new-yorkers-exist"},"modified":"2013-07-22T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:02:00","slug":"do-native-new-yorkers-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/22\/do-native-new-yorkers-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Native New Yorkers Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com.ivchost3.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/f8754-jp-cov-3-sfspan.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" src=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com.ivchost3.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/f8754-jp-cov-3-sfspan.jpg?w=300\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Photos from the New York Times<\/p>\n<div class=\"articleBodyImage w395 centeredElement\" style=\"background-color:white;color:#333333;font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size:10px;line-height:15px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:left;width:395px;\">\n<h6 class=\"credit\" style=\"color:#909090;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:.9em;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.223em;margin:0 0 3px;text-align:right;\">From left, DeRuiter Family; Hiroko Masuike\/The New York Times<\/h6>\n<div class=\"caption\" style=\"color:#666666;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.273em;\">Christian DeRuiter strolls along the Hudson, which runs through his family\u2019s long history in the city, dating back to Dutch colonial days. Left, Johannah de Bloch and Frederick DeRuiter, Mr. DeRuiter\u2019s paternal grandparents.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color:white;font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size:1.5em;line-height:1.467em;margin-bottom:1em;text-align:left;\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I ran across this interesting article in the <i>New York Times<\/i> by Constance Rosenblum. It reminded me that we&#8217;re all immigrants here in America, with only rare exceptions. Rosenblum notes that the majority of New Yorkers today came from somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>The article also drove home for me the reason I wrote <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/cindythomson.blogspot.com\/p\/my-books.html#.Ue1I9mQ4Xss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace&#8217;s Pictures<\/a><\/i><\/b>. I thought I&#8217;d share it here with you. Can you relate to any of the people in this article?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/21\/realestate\/family-tree-new-york.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;adxnnlx=1374504418-Tu9bRdM6Dm6XtzTKZRIWgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Family Tree New York<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from the New York Times From left, DeRuiter Family; Hiroko Masuike\/The New York Times Christian DeRuiter strolls along the Hudson, which runs through his family\u2019s long history in the city, dating back to Dutch colonial days. Left, Johannah de Bloch and Frederick DeRuiter, Mr. DeRuiter\u2019s paternal grandparents. I ran across this interesting article in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,60,73,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigrants","category-new-york-city","category-new-york-times","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}