{"id":190399,"date":"2009-12-01T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/01\/can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico-9\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T04:08:00","slug":"can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/01\/can-we-please-give-texas-back-to-mexico-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Please Give Texas Back to Mexico?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Houston, Texas, some  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/hotstories\/6746254.html\">toy drives are demanding proof of citizenship before they give toys to needy kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I consider myself a hard liner on immigration, but this is just insane, and stupid, and evil&#8230;..It&#8217;s Texas, through and through.<\/p>\n<p>Great googly moogly.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/12\/toy-drives-checking-immigration-status-of-children.php\/comment-page-2#comment-1708350\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Houston, Texas, some toy drives are demanding proof of citizenship before they give toys to needy kids. I consider myself a hard liner on immigration, but this is just insane, and stupid, and evil&#8230;..It&#8217;s Texas, through and through. Great googly moogly. H\/t Matthew Yglesias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,967,969,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-bigotry","category-evil","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}