{"id":8330,"date":"2024-02-22T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2024-02-22T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:07:25","slug":"a-border-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8330","title":{"rendered":"A Border Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If, as a national &#8220;body&#8221; of people, <br>We are unwilling to protect ourselves <br>From the infection that infuses us <br>By the invasion of immigrants, <br>We will, indeed, deserve the influx: <br>The natural consequence of\u00a0 negligence.<br>But, of course, even dereliction<br>Can be morphed into national benefit!<br>Are we not short on workers to fill<br>The demands of an economy which supposes<br>A growth in the population of consumers?<br>Indeed, that which\u00a0 is apparent buffoonery<br>May, indeed, be the work of a providential God<br>Looking out for the national welfare!<br>So, the moral of the story is to press on,<br>Advocating the preservation of citizenship<br>And the sustaining of national security,<br>But ready for and open to those divine moves<br>Where Providence comes in and makes a change<br>Which at first is abhorrent, yes, even above strange.<br>So, be not too disturbed when the boarders are overrun.<br>In the end in may be turned to a time of great fun<br>As those new citizens zealously go to work<br>And, paying those taxes, vote as good Republicans,<br>Pursuing the good and bringing us a needed revival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1557 on 22 Feb., 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, as a national &#8220;body&#8221; of people, We are unwilling to protect ourselves From the infection that infuses us By the invasion of immigrants, We will, indeed, deserve the influx: The natural consequence of\u00a0 negligence.But, of course, even derelictionCan be morphed into national benefit!Are we not short on workers to fillThe demands of an economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,30,52,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8332,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions\/8332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}