{"id":770,"date":"2016-01-30T00:57:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T00:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/?p=770"},"modified":"2016-01-30T00:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T00:57:58","slug":"we-are-all-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/2016\/01\/30\/we-are-all-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are All Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My great grandfather was an immigrant from Luxembourg, and I can no longer allow the hateful speech against immigrants to stand.<\/p>\n<p>We are a nation founded on &#8220;the firm belief&#8221; that all persons are created equal, and that all have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, no matter who we are or how we got here.  <\/p>\n<p>And those rights and that happiness is deserved, equally, by the indigenous people already here, and by the men and women brought to this nation, shamefully, in chains.<\/p>\n<p>Millions have left their homes in other countries in search of sanctuary from religious persecution, in search of freedom, to escape tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>We, the people, must reject the divisive rhetoric aimed toward those whose religion or nationality is different from ours.  <\/p>\n<p>The statue of Liberty beckons what we know to be true, in the words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/stli\/learn\/historyculture\/colossus.htm\">Emma Lazarus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Give me your tired, your poor,<br \/>\nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br \/>\nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br \/>\nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<br \/>\nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Please, reject the hate spewed from the lips of fearmongers.<\/p>\n<p>Please, look at these men and women who risked everything, many walked for hundreds of miles, to escape brutality.<\/p>\n<p>No one should have their religion, their homeland, denigrated here.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone deserves a smile, a hand, a chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the United States of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My great grandfather was an immigrant from Luxembourg, and I can no longer allow the hateful speech against immigrants to stand. We are a nation founded on &#8220;the firm belief&#8221; that all persons are created equal, and that all have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, no matter who we are or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,42],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-immigrant","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}