{"id":20691,"date":"2019-01-06T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T22:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20691"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T23:05:20","slug":"building-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20691","title":{"rendered":"Building walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear at this point that a concrete wall along our nation&#8217;s southern border will never be built. Grownups now in power realize that spending money on real national security is more useful than indulging a pointless boondoggle that sounds like it sprang from the mind of a six year old.<\/p>\n<p>Still, walls are indeed going up inside our own country. I took the following photograph today. A friend and I drove to a national park on this beautiful Sunday afternoon, only to be greeted by the sign you see below.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people who work for the government are going without pay right now. It&#8217;s not just our national parks that remain out of service, but a whole lot of things we need to keep our nation running.<\/p>\n<p>All because of a petulant brat who doesn&#8217;t care a fig about actual national security measures. At least not if those measures get in the way of his childish power games. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/area_closed.png\" alt=\"area_closed\" width=\"450\" height=\"524\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear at this point that a concrete wall along our nation&#8217;s southern border will never be built. Grownups now in power realize that spending money on real national security is more useful than indulging a pointless boondoggle that sounds like it sprang from the mind of a six year old. Still, walls are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building walls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20697,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691\/revisions\/20697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}