{"id":426,"date":"2017-08-05T08:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T12:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2017-08-05T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T12:53:37","slug":"chinese-immigrant-in-jericho-gets-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/chinese-immigrant-in-jericho-gets-the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Immigrant in Jericho Gets The Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

JERICHO –\u00a0Choing Bok Hoy (not his real name) of Jericho, VT received the call of his dreams in late July. A Chinese man of uncertain immigration status, 37 year old Hoy spent his childhood within a stone\u2019s throw of China\u2019s Great Wall. \u201cAs little boy I would look up at the wall and dream someday I have the chance to build something like it,\u201d Hoy told The Winooski<\/em>. On July 27, Hoy received a call from the US Dept. of Homeland Security offering him a senior position in the construction of the wall between the US and Mexico.<\/p>\n

Hoy\u2019s expertise on the wall was gleaned from studies at China\u2019s famous Dandong University. While walking atop the wall doing research for his final project, he lost his footing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fell off on wrong side of wall,\u201d he explained. The wall secures the northern border between his homeland and Inner Mongolia. Anyone attempting to enter China from the wrong side would likely be shot or sent back to the side he was coming from. Hoy decided to cut his losses and immigrate to the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was attracted to Vermont because of such beautiful wall that forms break in water.\u201d Enthralled by the stone wall arising out of Burlington\u2019s harbor, Hoy now stands on the brink of fulfilling his dream. But he worries the \u201cdream\u201d might actually be a nightmare. \u201cWhat if this is a ploy by ICE to isolate and interrogate me for my expertise; then maybe they detain and deport me,\u201d he worried. But he has a plan. \u201cI will work on wall, but on the Mexico side!\u201d Hoy\u2019s neighbors are holding a going-away party for him at an undisclosed location in August. \u201cWe are going to miss him,\u201d said neighbor Joan Fullerton (not her real name). \u201cBut it\u2019s good to know there will be a little of Vermont in our wall. We\u2019ve got to keep those immigrants out!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JERICHO –\u00a0Choing Bok Hoy (not his real name) of Jericho, VT received the call of his dreams in late July. A Chinese man of uncertain […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[31],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-vermont-life","tag-jericho"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TWFI-2017_08_05.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-6S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}