{"id":9268,"date":"2024-01-02T03:29:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T03:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2024-01-02T03:29:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T03:29:37","slug":"georgetown-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/georgetown-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgetownon.ca\/the-georgetown-boys-how-canadian-citizens-rescued-armenian-children\">this info page<\/a> posted on the Georgetown Ontario site about the Georgetown Boys, who were Armenian orphans rescued by Canadians after the Armenian Genocide. When I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/arams-choice-4\/\">Aram&#8217;s Choice<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/call-me-aram-3\/\">Call Me Aram<\/a>, it took quite a bit of sleuthing to gather the information. Now a lot of it is available online. Nicely done! The  Georgetown boys were brought to Canada on July 1, 1923 and they represent Canada&#8217;s first international humanitarian effort. An all too timely piece of history, alas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"406\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/arams-choice.jpg\" alt=\"arams-choice\" class=\"wp-image-60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/arams-choice.jpg 406w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/arams-choice-127x150.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/arams-choice-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 85vw, 406px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"378\" data-id=\"63\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aram2.jpg\" alt=\"aram2\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aram2.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aram2-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aram2-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 85vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to see this info page posted on the Georgetown Ontario site about the Georgetown Boys, who were Armenian orphans rescued by Canadians after the Armenian Genocide. When I wrote Aram&#8217;s Choice and Call Me Aram, it took quite a bit of sleuthing to gather the information. Now a lot of it is available online. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/georgetown-boys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Georgetown Boys&#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":[262],"tags":[40,13,46,48,38],"class_list":["post-9268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-armenian","tag-genocide","tag-georgetown-boys","tag-georgetown-ontario","tag-orphans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268","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=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}