{"id":237,"date":"2026-07-18T04:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/rebeccas-story\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T04:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:32:42","slug":"rebeccas-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/rebeccas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\">About<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-image sqs-empty\">\n<div class=\"sqs-image-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 60.0%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<h3 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Early Years<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Move<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Emigrating to a new country with your families sounds like a really exciting thing. Alas, your hopes of a \u2018Coming to America\u2019 or &#8220;\u2018Off the Boat\u2019 tale end here, skip to the last chapter now. As a white Irish family emigrating to Southwest Florida in the late nineties, you don\u2019t get classed as exotic. You\u2019re white, speak the same language (which shocked people a lot), and the cultures are not so vastly different that you need to ask for help turning on the tv. We went under the radar as immigrants. The most exotic thing about us was our volume. I am one of six children, with two parents still married. To Americans, this was always the surprise. I also think that sometimes when you said you were from Ireland, people sort of knew where it was, so they thought they couldn&#8217;t ask; or they had a great-great grandfather who sailed the Mayflower to love to chat about St.Patty\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Homeschooling<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">High School<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Switzerland and Nannying<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Melbourne years<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Bacchus years<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Thailand<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ireland 2018<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Diagnosis<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About The Early Years The Move Emigrating to a new country with your families sounds like a really exciting thing. Alas, your hopes of a \u2018Coming to America\u2019 or &#8220;\u2018Off the Boat\u2019 tale end here, skip to the last chapter now. As a white Irish family emigrating to Southwest Florida in the late nineties, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}