{"id":1643,"date":"2023-02-03T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/on-illegal-alien-and-illegal-immigrant\/"},"modified":"2023-02-03T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:50:09","slug":"on-illegal-alien-and-illegal-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/on-illegal-alien-and-illegal-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"On &#8216;Illegal Alien&#8217; and &#8216;Illegal Immigrant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> latest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The Republic is probably beyond saving at this late date. So why do I bother to write pieces that underscore what really ought to be obvious? One reason is selfish: I like to write and then re-read what I have written. But having taken the time to write something clean, coherent, and sensible, why should I hide my light&#0160; under a bushel? It is not impossible that a half-dozen readers will actually read what I have written and be led to think a bit more clearly and act a little more responsibly.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. The Republic is probably beyond saving at this late date. So why do I bother to write pieces that underscore what really ought to be obvious? One reason is selfish: I like to write and then re-read what I have written. But having taken the time to write something clean, coherent, and sensible, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/on-illegal-alien-and-illegal-immigrant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On &#8216;Illegal Alien&#8217; and &#8216;Illegal Immigrant&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-language-matters","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}