{"id":5512,"date":"2011-05-09T06:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2011-05-09T06:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:49:19","slug":"monday-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2011\/05\/09\/monday-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/immigration\/index.html?story=\/news\/feature\/2011\/05\/08\/us_border_fence_donations\">Arizona was looking for donations to build a border fence<\/a>, I was all set to cash in my CD, sell the dogs, and do whatever I could to support the effort.  I figured if <strong><em>that<\/em><\/strong> worked, we could get to work on Texas.  But then I read the fine print, and it turns out they wanna put the fence on the wrong side of the state. For some reason, they want to keep Arizonans out of <strong><em>Mexico<\/em><\/strong>.  Like Mexico doesn&#8217;t already have it pretty cushy, with their cheap drugs, free Tequila, and drunk American college kid tourist trade, now they want <strong><em>me<\/em><\/strong> to pay to keep it free from the scourge of desiccated, melanotic, melanoma-pocked husks of Arizona&#8217;s old, un-dead population (no offense, KP, wherever you are)?  I don&#8217;t think so.  Next thing you know, you&#8217;ll want me to donate to keep Floridians out of Cuba or something (come on back when we get universal health care, Ra\u00c3\u00bal).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Arizona, we&#8217;ve headed into a bit of an arid stretch up here.  Not only was it a warm sunny weekend, but the forecast appears to be free of rain at least until Friday.  It sure would be nice if things would dry out a bit to give the sump pumps a break, and I&#8217;m sure the farmer next door would really like to get his field plowed.  It would also be nice if the black fly and mosquito breeding grounds would dry up.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess I can&#8217;t put off thinking about going to work much longer.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that Arizona was looking for donations to build a border fence, I was all set to cash in my CD, sell the dogs, and do whatever I could to support the effort. I figured if that worked, we could get to work on Texas. But then I read the fine print, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}