{"id":2488,"date":"2009-11-09T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2009-11-09T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T16:07:27","slug":"the-berlin-wall-a-lesson-about-the-power-of-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=2488","title":{"rendered":"The Berlin Wall, a Lesson about the Power of Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a piece I&#8217;m pretty proud of for Radical Immigration about the Berlin Wall.\u00a0 In my old army footlocker somewhere I have a piece of The Wall.\u00a0 I bought it for a few dollars shortly after it was torn down.\u00a0 It is with my vial of Mount Saint Helens Ash.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid that the future will see the US in the same light as East Germany when thinking about our Southern Border Wall.\u00a0 Read the article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalimmigrationmovement.com\/\/content\/view\/149\/1\/lang,en\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rationalimmigrationmovement.com\/\/content\/view\/149\/1\/lang,en\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An exerpt:\u00a0 &#8220;The right to migrate gives people a powerful weapon against bad governments.<span> <\/span>A government that does not deliver goods, services and freedoms to it\u2019s people at a level proportionate to its neighbors will be threatened if its aggrieved citizens can vote with their feet and leave.<span> <\/span>For this to happen people need a place to go to.&#8221;<span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a piece I&#8217;m pretty proud of for Radical Immigration about the Berlin Wall.\u00a0 In my old army footlocker somewhere I have a piece of The Wall.\u00a0 I bought it for a few dollars shortly after it was torn down.\u00a0 It is with my vial of Mount Saint Helens Ash. I&#8217;m afraid that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radical-migration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-E8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}