{"id":3969,"date":"2019-02-06T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/the-state-of-the-union\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T12:39:04","slug":"the-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/the-state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">President Trump gave a great speech last night. I agree with Malcolm Pollack&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/malcolmpollack.com\/2019\/02\/06\/sotu-3\/\">commentary<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Obviously you can\u2019t please everyone, and there will be many of us who will take issue with some of what Mr. Trump put forward last night. (In particular, I think he is far too enthusiastic about increasing legal immigration, for reasons I won\u2019t go into here.) <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">That excess of enthusiasm struck me as well, for reasons I too won&#39;t go into now.&#0160; I have plenty to say in my <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/immigration\/\">Immigration<\/a> category.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump gave a great speech last night. I agree with Malcolm Pollack&#39;s commentary. Obviously you can\u2019t please everyone, and there will be many of us who will take issue with some of what Mr. Trump put forward last night. (In particular, I think he is far too enthusiastic about increasing legal immigration, for reasons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/the-state-of-the-union\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The State of the Union&#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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}