{"id":1312653,"date":"2019-07-21T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=984477"},"modified":"2019-07-21T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T00:19:10","slug":"letter-not-making-america-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/letter-not-making-america-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Not making America great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of 17, my mom\u2019s dad arrived in America. He was a \u201cdark Norwegian\u201d (not blonde\/blue-eyed) and spoke no English. He became an electrician and raised a family of four. In today\u2019s atmosphere he may have been told \u201cgo back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My son has a friend who was born and raised in Iraq. Since he was an interpreter for U.S. Marines, the rest of his family was murdered. He is now a U.S. citizen and is a construction worker. Should he be told \u201cgo back\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Most of us feel blessed to live in this country, but we know that there are many problems (mental\/physical health; infrastructure, etc.) that need our attention. Attacking fellow citizens will not help us to improve the America that we love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Hess<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glenwood Springs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-not-making-america-great\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of 17, my mom\u2019s dad arrived in America. He was a \u201cdark Norwegian\u201d (not blonde\/blue-eyed) and spoke no English. He became an electrician and raised a family of four. In today\u2019s atmosphere he may have been told \u201cgo back.\u201d My son has a friend who was born and raised in Iraq. Since [&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":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 02:26:14","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}