{"total":1,"limit":25,"offset":0,"prev_offset":null,"next_offset":null,"page_size":25,"this_page":1,"num_this_page":1,"prev_api":"","next_api":"","objects":[{"id":"The Travelers (short story)","model":"article","index":"0 0/{'value': 1, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20Travelers%20(short%20story)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/The%20Travelers%20(short%20story)/"},"title":"The Travelers (short story)","description":"Short story by\n  \n   Toshio Mori\n  \n  centering on two groups of inmates as they leave\n  \n   Topaz\n  \n  . One group of nine are those leaving the camp permanently to \"\n  \n   resettle\n  \n  \" in areas outside the restricted area of the West Coast; the other group consists of those who are visiting town briefly to shop or to see off relatives before returning to the camp. Those leaving for good includes a soldier leaving for the battlefront and being seen off by his mother, as well as those leaving for jobs in cities such as\n  \n   New York\n  \n  and\n  \n   Chicago\n  \n  . As the resettlers exchange information about their destinations, the soldier is drawn to an attractive young woman heading to Chicago, but does not speak to her. After the train leaves, a white family offers a ride to town to the mother of the soldier. \"The Travelers\" originally appeared in the Topaz literary publication\n  \n\n    All Aboard\n   \n\n  in 1944 and was republished in Mori's short story collections\n  \n   The Chauvinist and Other Stories\n  \n  in 1979 and\n  \n   Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori\n  \n  in 2000.","url_title":"The Travelers (short story)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["short stories"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Fiction"],"rg_theme":["Desire to escape","Optimism – power or folly","Power of silence"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Short Stories","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-file-text"}],"query":{"query":{"bool":{"filter":[{"term":{"published_rg":true}},{"term":{"rg_pov":"varying perspectives of different groups of incarcerated Japanese Americans"}}]}},"_source":["title","url_title","description","body","categories","coordinates","fulltext","rg_rgmediatype","rg_interestlevel","rg_readinglevel","rg_theme","rg_genre","rg_pov","rg_availability","rg_geography","rg_chronology","rg_hasteachingaids","rg_freewebversion"]},"aggregations":{}}