{"id":7067,"date":"2020-09-30T16:38:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2020-10-01T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T20:05:52","slug":"tuyet-yurczyszyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/tuyet-yurczyszyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuyet Yurczyszyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wrote about Tuyet&#8217;s childhood in <em>Last Airlift<\/em> and <em>One Step at a Time<\/em>, which has recently been re-released in an omnibus edition titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/sky-of-bombs-sky-of-stars\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6454\">Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars<\/a>. Readers have contacted both me and Tuyet, inspired by her grit, optimism and indomitable spirit. But what many readers may not realize is that Tuyet is now a celebrated Canadian athlete in Women&#8217;s Sledge Hockey and played in the World Championship in 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/womenshockeylife.com\/ice-sledge-hockey-a-dream-come-true-for-tuyet-morris-yurczyszyn\/\">Here&#8217;s an article about that<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of 2015, Tuyet was the final Torch Bearer in the Pan Am Para Am games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Tuyet_Yurczyszyn-2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Tuyet_Yurczyszyn-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Tuyet_Yurczyszyn-2-300x300.png 300w, 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data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tsledge.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/tsledge\/\" class=\"wp-image-7082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tsledge-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tsledge-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tsledge-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tsledge-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tsledge-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tsledge.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1930-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7078\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1930.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/img_1930\/\" class=\"wp-image-7078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1930-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1930-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1930-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1930-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1930-2048x1152.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_2734-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7072\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_2734.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=7072\" class=\"wp-image-7072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_2734-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_2734-926x1024.jpg 926w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_2734-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_2734-1200x1328.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_2734.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 85vw, 271px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about Tuyet&#8217;s childhood in Last Airlift and One Step at a Time, which has recently been re-released in an omnibus edition titled Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars. Readers have contacted both me and Tuyet, inspired by her grit, optimism and indomitable spirit. But what many readers may not realize is that Tuyet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/tuyet-yurczyszyn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuyet Yurczyszyn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,262],"tags":[367,368,523],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-news-stories","tag-last-airlift","tag-one-step-at-a-time","tag-sky-of-bombs-sky-of-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}