{"id":425,"date":"2004-01-05T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/closing_the_border\/"},"modified":"2004-01-05T04:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-05T09:02:00","slug":"closing_the_border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/closing_the_border\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another terrorist attack could drastically impact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1073086208977&#038;call_pageid=96\">traffic between the U.S. and Canada<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States would virtually close the Canada-U.S. border if a terrorist attack were launched anywhere near it, according to documents obtained under access-to-information legislation.<br \/>\n&#8220;One additional terrorist attack, that had its origins in Canada or occurred at, or along, the Canada-U.S. border, would likely cause Congress to lift the drawbridge,&#8221; warn the documents from the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article touches on the huge economic effect such a move would have on both sides of the border.<br \/>\nIt also makes me wonder&#8211;what if there was a terrorist strike linked to our southern border?  Do you think we&#8217;d shut down the flow of human traffic coming in from Mexico?<br \/>\nI wouldn&#8217;t bet on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/closing_the_border\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Closing the Border\"><p>Another terrorist attack could drastically impact traffic between the U.S. and Canada: The United States would virtually close the Canada-U.S. border if a terrorist attack were launched anywhere near it, according to documents obtained under access-to-information legislation. &#8220;One additional terrorist attack, that had its origins in Canada or occurred at, or along, the Canada-U.S. border, [&hellip;]<\/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-425","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\/425","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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}