{"id":41099,"date":"2024-09-30T12:33:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T17:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41099"},"modified":"2024-09-30T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T17:33:22","slug":"leaving-a-spot-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/09\/30\/leaving-a-spot-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving A Spot Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a chance for schadenfreude<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A Bala Cynwyd [, Pennsylvania] voter got a detailed letter this week from the made-up Pennsylvania Congressional Office of Immigration Affairs notifying her that her household had been selected to house five migrant refugees.<\/p>\n

No office exists, nor does such a government-mandated housing program, but the letter, doctored to look like an official government document, provided specific details designed to mislead someone less attuned to a scam \u2014 and laid the blame for the fake program at the feet of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris during a heated and close election in which immigration has increasingly become a focal point.<\/a> [The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’d frame that letter, which I would hope was only one page, and put it prominently on the wall. Next to it I’d place another frame, but, instead of a picture I’d have the words, big & readable,<\/p>\n

MUG SHOT<\/strong>
\nGOES<\/strong>
\nHERE<\/strong><\/p>\n

And if the half-wit pulling this stunt is ever caught – and my guess is the operative adjective will be easily<\/em> – then I’d obtain a copy of said mug shot and put it up on the wall.<\/p>\n

Giggling way too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a chance for schadenfreude: A Bala Cynwyd [, Pennsylvania] voter got a detailed letter this week from the made-up Pennsylvania Congressional Office of Immigration Affairs notifying her that her household had been selected to house five migrant refugees. No office exists, nor does such a government-mandated housing program, but \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41100,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099\/revisions\/41100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}