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The other day we came home to a mailbox stuffed with a huge USPS envelope addressed to “Bryan Yong-si Chu”<\/i>. I was like, “Hey Grace, there’s a mail for Bryan!?”<\/p>\n

It turned out to be Bryan’s passport (of the United States of America!). I opened and flipped through his passport with envy, joy, maybe almost a fraction of a drop of tear in my eye — Bryan was born with something his parents spent a good deal of fortune and their adult lives pursuing but could not obtain. I hope he will appreciate this gift that’s been bestowed on him.<\/p>\n

\"Bryan's<\/p>\n

With this passport and copies of my MFA transcript from SCAD, now we are ready for our interview with the Canadian Consulate<\/a> in October. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day we came home to a mailbox stuffed with a huge USPS envelope addressed to “Bryan Yong-si Chu”. I was like, “Hey Grace, there’s a mail for Bryan!?” It turned out to be Bryan’s passport (of the United States of America!). I opened and flipped through his passport with envy, joy, maybe almost … Continue reading “Americana”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-stuff","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-9B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}