{"id":188,"date":"2006-08-12T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=188"},"modified":"2006-08-12T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T21:16:31","slug":"the_spanish_vir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2006\/08\/the_spanish_vir\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish Virus&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMmmwwaahaha!! We care coming to get you. We are like the Borg of language. Resistance is futile. Your grandchildren will recite Cervantes the same way they can now recite the Psalms&#8230;&#160; Pass the Corona, please.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOops!! I wrote this in English. Oh well, just a reminder that not all of us are &#8220;language challenged&#8221; -to put it mildly- and can juggle more than one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/08\/11\/navarrette\/index.html\" title=\"CNN.com - Navarrette: What really bothers immigration foes - Aug 11, 2006\">CNN.com &#8211; Navarrette: What really bothers immigration foes &#8211; Aug 11, 2006<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Hutchison-Pence plan forces the anti-amnesty crowd to level finally with the rest of us about what really bothers them. If it is that people are here illegally, or that the border isn&#8217;t secure, then the plan has that covered. But if it&#8217;s the fear that Anglo-Saxon culture and the English language are being eroded by Spanish-speaking foreigners, and that the country is going down the tubes because of it &#8212; then this plan doesn&#8217;t offer much relief.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mmmwwaahaha!! We care coming to get you. We are like the Borg of language. Resistance is futile. Your grandchildren will recite Cervantes the same way they can now recite the Psalms&#8230;&#160; Pass the Corona, please. Oops!! I wrote this in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2006\/08\/the_spanish_vir\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}