{"id":1003,"date":"2010-07-28T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/28\/where-have-you-been-kinky"},"modified":"2020-07-12T02:24:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T02:24:13","slug":"where-have-you-been-kinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Where have you been, Kinky?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/kinky_friedman-763418.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499044136371683202\" src=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/37494-kinky_friedman-763418.jpg?w=274\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I miss Kinky Friedman.<\/p>\n<p>I just heard him tell a TV interviewer that the nation&#8217;s first order of business is to secure the border. True enough. But then the humorist, author and former Texas gubernatorial candidate &#8212; he ran for governor in 2006 as an independent candidate &#8212; went a step further.<\/p>\n<p>He opposes building a fence along the southern border, an idea getting some traction among Republicans. Why not build a fence? &#8220;The way things are going in <em>this <\/em>country,&#8221; Friedman said, &#8220;we may want to get <em>out<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss Kinky Friedman. I just heard him tell a TV interviewer that the nation&#8217;s first order of business is to secure the border. True enough. But then the humorist, author and former Texas gubernatorial candidate &#8212; he ran for governor in 2006 as an independent candidate &#8212; went a step further. He opposes building &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where have you been, Kinky?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43580,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/43580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}