{"id":2579,"date":"2008-05-19T05:03:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T10:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2008-05-19T05:03:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T10:03:47","slug":"style-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"Style Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about immigration &#8211; I, for one, favor making it safe, available and legal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People have different takes on the &#8220;enforcement&#8221; side of things, of course; last week&#8217;s roundup of illegals in Postville, Iowa was a rallying point to pro-legal immigration supporters and a poke in the eye of the anti-sovereignty forces&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;one of whom, it seems reasonable to assume, is the <em>Minnesoros Monitor<\/em>&#8216;s Anna Pratt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not really the immigration talk that grabbed my attention about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=4023\">her piece in the <em>mSM <\/em>on Saturday<\/a>.\u00a0 No, it was this bit here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Late Friday afternoon, a crowd assembled on <em>a vibrant street corner<\/em> in Minneapolis&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, for one, would like to find that &#8220;vibrant corner&#8221; and kick back on a chaise lounge.\u00a0 It&#8217;d be like one of those &#8220;magic fingers&#8221; beds in the hotels, only free.<\/p>\n<p>Well, given that it&#8217;s Minneapolis, we&#8217;re not sure about the &#8220;free&#8221; bit, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about immigration &#8211; I, for one, favor making it safe, available and legal.\u00a0 People have different takes on the &#8220;enforcement&#8221; side of things, of course; last week&#8217;s roundup of illegals in Postville, Iowa was a rallying point to pro-legal immigration supporters and a poke in the eye of the anti-sovereignty forces&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}