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  "path": "/issues/2026-3-28/the-view-from-here",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://airmail.news",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\n##### A fable for our times (with apologies to Shel Silverstein)\n\nBy David Kamp and Joe McKendry\n\nOnce there was a guardrail …\n\nand it\n\nlooked after\n\na\n\nlittle boy.\n\nAnd every day\n\nthe boy\n\nwould come\n\nand\n\nhe\n\nwould\n\nkick\n\nits\n\nbeams\n\nand scream at it\n\nand curse at it\n\nand tell the rail\n\nthat he would own it one day.\n\nAnd the guardrail,\n\nhaving guarded the boy\n\nand protected the world from the boy,\n\nwas happy.\n\nBut time went by.\n\nOne day the boy came to the guardrail.\n\nAnd the rail said, “Come, Boy, kick me again\n\nand I shall stand strong against you\n\nand remind you of what is right and what is good.”\n\n“I am too big to have guardrails,” said the boy. READ ON",
  "title": "The View from Here"
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