{"id":2120,"date":"2013-06-20T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2013-06-20T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:28:41","slug":"whats-wrong-with-a-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2120","title":{"rendered":"WHAT’S WRONG WITH A FENCE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s wrong with a fence?<\/p>\n

A fence is working fine for Israel.<\/p>\n

So is their system of airline security.<\/p>\n

So is their readiness for war, for defense.<\/p>\n

So is their willingness to stand against world opinion.<\/p>\n

All because they care about their country.<\/p>\n

What’s wrong with a fence on our border?<\/p>\n

It’s not there—that’s what is wrong.<\/p>\n

We’ve lost our willingness for defense—that’s what is wrong.<\/p>\n

We’re losing our readiness for defense—that’s what is wrong.<\/p>\n

Texas once took over the border problem and formed the Texas Rangers to do so—that’s what is right.<\/p>\n

Texas needs to take over a few other things as well—and that is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s wrong with a fence? A fence is working fine for Israel. So is their system of airline security. So is their readiness for war, for defense. So is their willingness to stand against world opinion. All because they care about their country. What’s wrong with a fence on our border? It’s not there—that’s what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}