{"id":11423,"date":"2008-09-22T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T22:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/2008\/09\/22\/orthodontic-resident-becomes-u-s-citizen\/"},"modified":"2012-07-29T00:38:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T04:38:29","slug":"orthodontic-resident-becomes-u-s-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/2008\/09\/22\/orthodontic-resident-becomes-u-s-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodontic Resident Becomes U.S. Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<img src=\"\/dental\/files\/news-cms\/photos\/black.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright\" \/>\n<p class=\"text\">Elena Black ORAL BIO 07, ORTHO 09 celebrated her newly  earned United States citizenship with a party at Boston University Goldman  School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM). The party featured an American flag cake, an  assortment of US-themed gifts, and encouragement for Black to sing the national  anthem. Members of the BUGSDM staff who organized the party said they wanted to  celebrate Black&#8217;s achievement because she has been a wonderful member of the  BUGSDM community for several years.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Black participated in the citizenship ceremony on  September 17, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2001\/09\/20010917-15.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2001\/09\/20010917-15.html\">National  Citizenship Day<\/a>. The ceremony was held at <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.redsox.mlb.com\/bos\/ballpark\/index.jsp\" title=\"http:\/\/boston.redsox.mlb.com\/bos\/ballpark\/index.jsp\">Fenway Park<\/a> and  over 3,000 people were sworn in as US citizens. Added Black, &quot;This was the first  time the ceremony was held at Fenway, so I was part of the first graduating  class of Fenway Park.&quot; To commemorate this honor, everyone was given <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.redsox.mlb.com\/bos\/fan_forum\/redsox_nation.jsp\" title=\"http:\/\/boston.redsox.mlb.com\/bos\/fan_forum\/redsox_nation.jsp\">Red Sox  Nation<\/a> bracelets.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Black originally hails from Romania but has been living  in the US for 7 years. She has two children, Nicholas and Mimi, ages 3 and 1  with her husband, Samuel Black ORAL BIO 07, ENDO 09. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Black ORAL BIO 07, ORTHO 09 celebrated her newly earned United States citizenship with a party at Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM). The party featured an American flag cake, an assortment of US-themed gifts, and encouragement for Black to sing the national anthem. Members of the BUGSDM staff who organized the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13839],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19401,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11423\/revisions\/19401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}