{"id":5630,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/elp-us\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:59","slug":"elp-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/elp-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Elp Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrants generally excel, because they know they can only gain.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Elpus and story of his immigrant grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>They were dirt-poor and coming from Poland.  Grandpa knew only one English phrase &#8211; &#8220;Help us.&#8221;  When the government official on Ellis Island asked for his name, grandpa responded, &#8220;Help us.&#8221;  The official wrote down Elpus, and that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s been ever since.  Grandpa never even told the family what their real name was.  He never looked back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrants generally excel, because they know they can only gain. Wayne Elpus and story of his immigrant grandfather. They were dirt-poor and coming from Poland. Grandpa knew only one English phrase &#8211; &#8220;Help us.&#8221; When the government official on Ellis Island asked for his name, grandpa responded, &#8220;Help us.&#8221; The official wrote down Elpus, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1010,679,3042,3041,3040,1119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}