{"id":30360,"date":"2018-06-17T02:42:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T02:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30360"},"modified":"2018-06-17T02:42:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T02:42:47","slug":"late-night-wisdom-on-child-parent-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30360","title":{"rendered":"Late-night wisdom on child-parent separation"},"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>Stephen Colbert is a comedian with a political point of view he delivers nightly from the Ed Sullivan Theater stage in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>He was spot on in a diatribe against Donald J. Trump&#8217;s immigration policy that instructs border security agents to wrest children from their parents who enter this country illegally.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeff Sessions Cites The Bible In Separating Children From Parents\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4KaLkYxMZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most poignant point that Colbert made is that the United States is the only country on Earth that has invoked such a heartless policy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the president contends that it&#8217;s a &#8220;Democrat bill&#8221; that congressional Democrats need to fix. One problem. There is no law on the books. This policy came from an executive branch instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Colbert&#8217;s take on it. Yes, he&#8217;s a comic. He&#8217;s also a well-educated man who happens to be a husband and father who feels deeply about this issue.<\/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>Stephen Colbert is a comedian with a political point of view he delivers nightly from the Ed Sullivan Theater stage in New York City. He was spot on in a diatribe against Donald J. Trump&#8217;s immigration policy that instructs border security agents to wrest children from their parents who enter this country illegally. Perhaps the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Late-night wisdom on child-parent separation<\/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":[5],"tags":[1414,1424,2240,2245,4411],"class_list":["post-30360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-stephen-colbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360","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=30360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30361,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions\/30361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}