{"id":60697,"date":"2016-10-25T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60697"},"modified":"2016-10-24T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:34:07","slug":"first-things-first-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60697","title":{"rendered":"First Things First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The slogan \u201cAmerica First\u201d has historical connotations.\u00a0 Set history aside for a minute, just think about the principles of self-government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">If you don\u2019t believe the American government should put America\u2019s interest ahead of all other nations, then whose interest should be first?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Who should we mortgage our children\u2019s future for, so we can send money to another nation to solve their problems instead of spending it here to solve our own problems?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Whose border should we send our finest young men and women to defend, instead of deploying them to defend our own border?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Libya?\u00a0 Iran?\u00a0 Cuba?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Who&#8217;s given most to the Clinton Foundation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The slogan \u201cAmerica First\u201d has historical connotations.\u00a0 Set history aside for a minute, just think about the principles of self-government.\u00a0 \u00a0If you don\u2019t believe the American government should put America\u2019s interest ahead of all other nations, then whose interest should be first?\u00a0 \u00a0Who should we mortgage our children\u2019s future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60697","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=60697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60698,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60697\/revisions\/60698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}