{"id":71812,"date":"2015-07-28T16:37:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T00:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71812"},"modified":"2015-07-29T06:38:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:38:18","slug":"open-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71812","title":{"rendered":"Open Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Twenty years ago, I met a Christian girl at a party. She had to say a prayer to Jesus before she would get cozy. Something like: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dear Jesus, thank you for giving me this man and for our kisses, forgive us our trespassers and lead us not into unplanned parenthood, amen.&#8221; Now&#8230;come here handsome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y8MhVpHWozo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* Like all peoples, blacks have unique gifts. I hate to see them stuck in customer service and pushing paper for government bureaucracies. It does not play to their strengths.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam:  Wasn&#8217;t there an Israeli official who made a racist remark when the Ethiopians arrived to Israel? Something about &#8220;now we can win gold medals in running&#8221;. Are you a time traveller?<\/p>\n<p>* A girl tells me she&#8217;s had some dreams about me. My response? &#8220;So I wonder what your next dream will be? Have you had just the two about me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* She said: &#8220;You are the only living soul who has shown concern over my jaw. How thoughtful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Luke: &#8220;I find that funny, but I might lack empathy.&#8221;<br \/>\nFriend: &#8220;Really?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Twenty years ago, I met a Christian girl at a party. She had to say a prayer to Jesus before she would get cozy. Something like: &#8220;Dear Jesus, thank you for giving me this man and for our kisses, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71812\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71814,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71812\/revisions\/71814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}