{"id":403696,"date":"2010-03-08T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f7b73ff970c"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:15:06","slug":"remains-of-19th-century-chinese-immigrants-to-be-reburied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/403696","title":{"rendered":"Remains of 19th century Chinese immigrants to be reburied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remains of Chinese immigrants whose century-old grave sites were discovered five years ago during Metro Gold Line construction will get a new resting place Monday when a memorial will be held to honor their legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\nAll 174 burial remains and artifacts unearthed in 2005 will be re-interred Monday at the Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights, where the Chinese frontiersmen were not permitted to be buried because of racist policies of the late 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere clearly was a historic wrong,\u201d said Yvette Rapose, community relations manager for the MTA. \u201cWe are taking the lead to right that wrong, to re-inter them at the Evergreen Cemetery, where they were once denied access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nYet the resolution was bittersweet for members of the local Chinese community conflicted about what to do with the ancestral bones and artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s been too long for these remains to be out there in some<br \/>\nlaboratory,\u201d said Daisy Ma, president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. \u201cWe do not want to wait any longer. We want closure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ching-Ching Ni<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remains of Chinese immigrants whose century-old grave sites were discovered five years ago during Metro Gold Line construction will get a new resting place Monday when a memorial will be held to honor their legacy. All 174 burial remains and artifacts unearthed in 2005 will be re-interred Monday at the Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}