{"id":9240,"date":"2015-11-24T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2015-11-24T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:40:44","slug":"for-syrians-the-terrible-prospect-of-billings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/11\/for-syrians-the-terrible-prospect-of-billings\/","title":{"rendered":"For Syrians, the terrible prospect of Billings"},"content":{"rendered":"

There isn’t anything remotely funny about this country’s shameful attitude towards Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n

Well, there wasn’t until the Onion weighed in. In a piece headlined “How Refugees Are Admitted Into The U.S.<\/a>,” the Onion listed 13 steps Syrian refugees must undergo before being admitted.<\/p>\n

Here’s step 10: “Accept grim but very real possibility of life in Billings, MT.”<\/p>\n

That’s very, very cruel, right? But pretty damned funny, too.<\/p>\n

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There isn’t anything remotely funny about this country’s shameful attitude towards Syrian refugees. Well, there wasn’t until the Onion weighed in. In a piece headlined “How Refugees Are Admitted Into The U.S.,” the Onion listed 13 steps Syrian refugees must undergo before being admitted. Here’s step 10: “Accept grim but very real possibility of life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3426,3420],"class_list":["post-9240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-onion","tag-syria","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}