{"id":1614,"date":"2005-05-02T11:24:52","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/reader_links\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T15:24:52","slug":"reader_links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/reader_links\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every now and then we get letters. And sometimes I actually read them. From the mail bag:
\nLes Jones<\/a> sends this link on The Barkley Marathons<\/a>. Wow. I thought my half marathon was bad.
\nRobin e-mails on Watching America<\/a>. Want to know what people in Istanbul think about the runaway bride? Me neither. But you might be able to find out here. The site purports to link to “news about the U.S. written outside the U.S.”
\njeff-perado points out the enlightenment going on at Janicek Online<\/a>. An example<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The unintended side-effect of this mass illegal immigration is the fact that so many of them refuse to assimilate to our culture, i.e., refusing to learn and speak our language.
\nOf course this is also a bigoted statement. I have no right to expect that if someone wants to illegally invade my country, they should at least have the courtesy to learn my language. Though, it would be nice to be able to order a Big Mac without having to bring an interpreter.
\nI also have no right to expect English to be spoken in an English speaking country. Think about that for a minute: we can no longer expect immigrants to speak English in America without being branded a racist. That\ufffds what “progressivism” has given us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael Savage couldn’t have said it better himself!
\nIf we want to create an incentive for immigrants to learn English, I’ve got a simple solution; no constitutional amendments needed. Just force them to listen to me attempt to speak Spanish; that should prompt them to want to figure out English real fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every now and then we get letters. And sometimes I actually read them. From the mail bag: Les Jones sends this link on The Barkley Marathons. Wow. I thought my half marathon was bad. Robin e-mails on Watching America. Want to know what people in Istanbul think about the runaway bride? Me neither. But you […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}