{"id":1384379,"date":"2019-01-09T22:31:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=961892"},"modified":"2019-01-09T22:31:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T05:31:41","slug":"letter-letter-writer-misunderstood-point-of-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/letter-letter-writer-misunderstood-point-of-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Letter writer misunderstood point of poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the incredible misleading statistics often cited by Trump xenophobes, there is a disquieting habit of taking quotes out of context or attributing them to some unnamed amorphous group such as &#8220;what they say,&#8221; (&#8220;Fences make good neighbors,&#8221; Post Independent, Jan. 8).<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;good neighbors&#8221; etc. quote is not,&#8221;what they say.&#8221; It is from the Robert Frost poem, &#8220;Mending Wall.&#8221; In the poem it is the author&#8217;s ignorant neighbor who makes the statement, &#8220;Good fences make good neighbors.&#8221; The poem concludes about the wall, &#8220;Something there is that doesn&#8217;t love a wall, that sends the frozen groundswell under it&#8230;&#8221; and, &#8220;Something there is that doesn&#8217;t love a wall, that wants it down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Hugh Warder,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>New Castle<\/b><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-letter-writer-misunderstood-point-of-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the incredible misleading statistics often cited by Trump xenophobes, there is a disquieting habit of taking quotes out of context or attributing them to some unnamed amorphous group such as &#8220;what they say,&#8221; (&#8220;Fences make good neighbors,&#8221; Post Independent, Jan. 8). The &#8220;good neighbors&#8221; etc. quote is not,&#8221;what they say.&#8221; It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1384379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 16:20:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}