{"id":2517,"date":"2010-11-28T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2010-12-08T01:51:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T08:51:21","slug":"tellez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=2517","title":{"rendered":"Tellez: We didn&#8217;t cross the borders&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/greatgreatgrandparents2-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/greatgreatgrandparents2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"greatgreatgrandparents2-1\" width=\"351\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/greatgreatgrandparents2-1.jpg 351w, https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/greatgreatgrandparents2-1-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>My great-great grandmother and father, Flora Tellez Martinez and Zacarias Tellez Sr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The idea of legacy has been on my mind for awhile now. I sometimes joke my ancestors survived plagues and genocide in order to keep their lineage going, so I better do something useful with my life. That brings me to this photo, it&#8217;s the oldest known photo I have of my antecedents. It&#8217;s of my maternal great-great grandfather and mother. They were freighters and miners in New Mexico and Arizona and lived a hard life, I&#8217;m sure. They survived the annexation of Mexico by the US and the death of their son, my great-grandfather, to miners lung. They are both buried in Tucson, Arizona. Thanks to them, I&#8217;m here now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My great-great grandmother and father, Flora Tellez Martinez and Zacarias Tellez Sr. The idea of legacy has been on my mind for awhile now. I sometimes joke my ancestors survived plagues and genocide in order to keep their lineage going, so I better do something useful with my life. That brings me to this photo, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=2517\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tellez: We didn&#8217;t cross the borders&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}