{"id":4662,"date":"2014-02-26T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2014-02-26T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:58:11","slug":"soundbite-response-to-old-question-when-i-was-asked-what-does-immigration-status-have-to-do-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4662","title":{"rendered":"Soundbite response to old question: When I was asked what does immigration status have to do with..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor once asked me what does immigration status have to do with that when I complained about how U.S. citizens would look bad if immigrants are doing more of God's works, seminary studies, etc. in this country. At that time I was a bit flabbergasted by the stupidity of the question to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Now upon reflection, a quick and easy soundbite response would be:<\/p>\n<p>Let me ask you something, between the children of a house owner and the house guests, who are more responsible for the house's cleanliness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor once asked me what does immigration status have to do with that when I complained about how U.S. citizens would look bad if immigrants are doing more of God's works, seminary studies, etc. in this country. At that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4662\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions\/4663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}