{"id":22547,"date":"2022-06-13T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=22547"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T19:55:52","slug":"opinion-why-im-ditching-my-comfy-canadian-lifestyle-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/opinion-why-im-ditching-my-comfy-canadian-lifestyle-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Why I'm ditching my comfy Canadian lifestyle for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22548\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/220608085730-batkivshchyna-sketch-exlarge-169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22548\" src=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/220608085730-batkivshchyna-sketch-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/220608085730-batkivshchyna-sketch-exlarge-169.jpg 780w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/220608085730-batkivshchyna-sketch-exlarge-169-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1950 picture 'memories of Batkivshchyna' or 'homeland' by the author's father, Bohdan Bociurkiw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When traveling to Ukraine, among the essentials I pack is a small, rolled-up image my 'tato' (father) sketched in 1950 that he called 'memories of Batkivshchyna' or 'homeland.'<\/p>\n<p>The picture of a quaint village was based on Bohdan Bociurkiw's memories of living in western Ukraine as a student and scholar, shortly after he left a refugee camp in Europe and migrated to Canada in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/09\/opinions\/ukraine-move-canada-ancestor-father-painting-bociurkiw\/index.html\">@cnn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Bociurkiw (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldaffairspro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WorldAffairsPro<\/a>) is a global affairs analyst. He is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He is a regular contributor to CNN Opinion. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/opinions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> opinion<\/a> at CNN.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When traveling to Ukraine, among the essentials I pack is a small, rolled-up image my 'tato' (father) sketched in 1950 that he called 'memories of Batkivshchyna' or 'homeland.' The picture of a quaint village was...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diverse-voices","primary-category-42","primary-category-diverse-voices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22553,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547\/revisions\/22553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}