{"id":12035,"date":"2018-06-20T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12035"},"modified":"2018-06-03T11:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:38:35","slug":"why-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=12035","title":{"rendered":"Why America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“But where are we going I asked?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We are going to America.”My father said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Why America?” I prodded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Because son.” he replied “we were born Americans, but in the wrong place.”
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Suicide of the West<\/a> by Jonah Goldberg. Possibly an apocryphal story about refugees from the Hungarian revolution against the Soviets in 1956. “Something doesn’t have to be a fact to illustrate a truth.” Rabbi Kollin<\/p>\n

The image is from a Postcrossing<\/a> card I received from Kansas USA last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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