{"id":182980,"date":"2025-10-14T23:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=182980"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:39:01","slug":"i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=182980","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was scared&#8217; \u2014 American man seeks asylum in Windsor after kayaking into Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After kayaking across the Detroit River earlier this month, an American asylum-seeker stepped into Canada unsure of what to expect, but considers the reaction so far positive \u2013 including a stranger giving him $100. \u201cI hate the fact that I did what I did, but what was my choice&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/windsorstar.com\/news\/local-news\/i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After kayaking across the Detroit River earlier this month, an American asylum-seeker stepped into Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada.jpg",1000,750,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada.jpg",1000,750,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada.jpg",1000,750,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada.jpg",1000,750,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182980-i-was-scared-american-man-seeks-asylum-in-windsor-after-kayaking-into-canada-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}