{"id":362,"date":"2017-02-10T14:20:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=362"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:54:29","slug":"yes-to-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2017\/02\/10\/yes-to-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Lines to Grocery Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By some definition, we&#8217;re all immigrants.<br \/>\nMoving place to place, on every distant shore.<br \/>\nNew citizens be welcomed, but please acquaint yourselves,<br \/>\nto basics you cannot ignore &#8211; behind our open door.<\/p>\n<p>Americans hold values, adopt them best you can,<br \/>\ngain skills and study English &#8211; spend some time to learn.<br \/>\nBut there is one skill, you&#8217;ll use every day,<br \/>\nto grocery shop you&#8217;ll see a line &#8211; there you&#8217;ll wait your turn.<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:020217-rvsd 101022)<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By some definition, we&#8217;re all immigrants. Moving place to place, on every distant shore. New citizens be welcomed, but please &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2017\/02\/10\/yes-to-immigration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Immigration Lines to Grocery Lines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-misc-pre-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}