{"id":16,"date":"2007-06-23T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T20:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/2007\/06\/23\/article-texas-czech-group-working-to-preserve-traditions\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T21:02:48","slug":"article-texas-czech-group-working-to-preserve-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/2007\/06\/23\/article-texas-czech-group-working-to-preserve-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: Texas Czech Group Working to Preserve Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio.cz\/\">Radio Prague<\/a> has published an article by Ian Willoughby , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio.cz\/en\/article\/92634\">Texas Czech group working to preserve traditions<\/a>, about John Polasek, a member of the Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center&#8217;s Board of Directors, who traveled to Prague to receive an award. Ian spoke with John about Texas&#8217; Czech heritage and what&#8217;s being done to preserve and enhance it.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re re-establishing some of the old Czech farm homesteads. Most of the Czechs that came to Texas settled in farm areas. So we&#8217;re rebuilding the farmsteads. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Tell us also about the collections you have at the Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Centre of Czech historical artefacts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have numerous pictures, books and all that that our ancestors brought over from the Czech Republic. We have a genealogy section where people can research their family history, and most of the people there know where there roots are in the Czech Republic, believe it or not.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information about the Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.czechtexas.org\/\">www.CzechTexas.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Prague has published an article by Ian Willoughby , Texas Czech group working to preserve traditions, about John Polasek, a member of the Texas Czech &#8230; <a title=\"Article: Texas Czech Group Working to Preserve Traditions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/2007\/06\/23\/article-texas-czech-group-working-to-preserve-traditions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Article: Texas Czech Group Working to Preserve Traditions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytexas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}