{"id":21553,"date":"2020-07-23T18:16:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=21553"},"modified":"2020-07-23T18:16:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T22:16:18","slug":"the-fence-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=21553","title":{"rendered":"The Fence Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeff Foxworthy<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Which side of the fence are you on?<\/h3>\n<p>If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If a Republican doesn&#8217;t like guns, he doesn&#8217;t buy one.<br \/>\nIf a Democrat doesn&#8217;t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.<br \/>\n============================= ==<br \/>\nIf a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn&#8217;t eat meat.<br \/>\nIf a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.<br \/>\n============================== =<br \/>\nIf a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.<br \/>\nIf a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.<br \/>\n============================== =<br \/>\nIf a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.<br \/>\nIf a Democrat is down-and-out he wonders who is going to take care of him.<br \/>\n============================== =<br \/>\nIf a Republican doesn&#8217;t like a talk show host, he switches channels<br \/>\nA Democrat demands that those they don&#8217;t like be shut down.<br \/>\n============================== =<br \/>\nIf a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn&#8217;t go to church.<br \/>\nA Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.<br \/>\n============================== =<br \/>\nIf a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.<br \/>\nIf a Democrat decides he needs health care, he demands that the rest of us pay for his.<br \/>\n============================== =<br \/>\nIf a Republican is unhappy with an election, he grumbles and goes to work the next day.<br \/>\nIf a Democrat is unhappy with an election, he burns down a Starbucks, throws rocks at cops and takes two-weeks off for therapy.<br \/>\n============================== =<br \/>\nIf a Republican reads this, he&#8217;ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.<br \/>\nA Democrat will delete it because he&#8217;s &#8220;offended.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeff Foxworthy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}