{"id":314,"date":"2005-11-03T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2005-12-21T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T07:08:10","slug":"the-great-wall-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/03\/the-great-wall-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Wall of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican congressman plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/1153AP_Border_Fence.html\" target=\"_blank\">propose<\/a> that the United States build a 2000-mile fence across its borders with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the Chinese <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_wall\" target=\"_blank\">tried that<\/a> thousands of years ago. Didn&#8217;t quite work as hoped&#8230; Did it stop the invaders from trying to kick Chinese butt? No. In fact, the wall was breached quite often. <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, expect illegal immigration to go <i>way down<\/i> once the wall is errected. <\/p>\n<p>Are the Republicans trying to compensate for <i>something<\/i> by errecting such a <i>giant<\/i> wall?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican congressman plans to propose that the United States build a 2000-mile fence across its borders with Mexico. Yeah, the Chinese tried that thousands of years ago. Didn&#8217;t quite work as hoped&#8230; Did it stop the invaders from trying to kick Chinese butt? No. In fact, the wall was breached quite often. Yeah, expect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/03\/the-great-wall-of-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Great Wall of America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-54","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}