{"id":440,"date":"2006-04-11T03:10:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T03:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=440"},"modified":"2010-08-04T02:08:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T02:08:27","slug":"tuesday-april-11-2006-a-giant-fence-of-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, April 11, 2006 \u2014 A Giant Fence of&nbsp;Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weath\u00ader is too beau\u00adti\u00adful for me to take pol\u00adi\u00adtics very seri\u00adous\u00adly. I\u2019m also too engrossed in fin\u00adish\u00ading my fan\u00adta\u00adsy nov\u00adel to pay much attention.<\/p>\n<p>An Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Sen\u00ada\u00adtor is inter\u00adviewed on Cana\u00addi\u00adan tele\u00advi\u00adsion, explain\u00ading his plan to build a fif\u00adteen-foot high, barb\u00adwire-topped wall along the 6416 kilo\u00adme\u00adtre (3987 miles) bor\u00adder between the Unit\u00aded States and Cana\u00adda. The inter\u00adview\u00ader is ren\u00addered speech\u00adless by increduli\u00adty as the Sen\u00ada\u00adtor express\u00ades his inabil\u00adi\u00adty to under\u00adstand why Cana\u00addi\u00adans would take offense at the project. I won\u00adder what will hap\u00adpen in the adja\u00adcent New Brunswick and Maine towns where the bor\u00adder runs through the mid\u00addle of the Pub\u00adlic Library and the book check-in desk is in the U.S. and the book check-out is in Canada?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weath\u00ader is too beau\u00adti\u00adful for me to take pol\u00adi\u00adtics very seri\u00adous\u00adly. I\u2019m also too engrossed in fin\u00adish\u00ading my fan\u00adta\u00adsy nov\u00adel to pay much atten\u00adtion. An Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Sen\u00ada\u00adtor is inter\u00adviewed on Cana\u00addi\u00adan tele\u00advi\u00adsion, explain\u00ading his plan to build a fifteen-foot&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=440\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-au-blog-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}