{"id":109219,"date":"2025-08-12T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=109219"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:30:38","slug":"favorite-tweets-29415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=109219","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nobody wants to say it, but America\u2019s poor would be much better off if we built new prisons rather than new universities. Crime and violence\u2014not \u201csystemic racism\u201d or \u201credlining\u201d\u2014are the great destroyers of opportunity for the poor.<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1955271806568284220\">Aug 12, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody wants to say it, but America\u2019s poor would be much better off if we built new prisons rather than new universities. Crime and violence\u2014not \u201csystemic racism\u201d or \u201credlining\u201d\u2014are the great destroyers of opportunity for the poor. &mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) Aug 12, 2025 from http:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo via IFTTT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-109219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109220,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109219\/revisions\/109220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109219"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=109219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}