{"id":1012,"date":"2010-04-20T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=450"},"modified":"2010-04-20T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T13:21:06","slug":"smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"smart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have headed into southern Louisiana on our<em> Louisiana Gumbo Tour.<\/em> \u00a0 (We, again, pride ourselves on originality.) \u00a0 We stopped in New Orleans where I gave a talk to an in-home gathering in the heart of the city on Constance St. \u00a0 The day before, President Obama had outlined his plans for prioritizing going to Mars. \u00a0 He said we would now do space travel in a &#8220;smart&#8221; way. \u00a0 During my talk, I questioned the use of the word &#8220;smart.&#8221; \u00a0 I mean, all the best minds at MIT, Harvard, Stanford&#8230; have come up with these ultra-sophisticated, ultra-expensive spacecraft&#8230; to take us to places like Mars &#8212; where there&#8217;s no gravity, no oxygen and no food. \u00a0 Duh! \u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t the billions we&#8217;re spending on NASA be better spent on things like, oh I don&#8217;t know, MAYBE ENDING WORLD HUNGER! \u00a0 Maybe &#8216;smart,&#8217; the way we currently construe &#8216;smart&#8217; to be, should be trumped by common sense&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0 The neighborhood where I gave the talk in New Orleans is a hardscrabble one, fraught with a lot of violence. \u00a0 In fact, the weekend before in New Orleans there were eight shooting deaths throughout the city. \u00a0 Our cities (LA, Chicago, Cleveland&#8230;) are turning into <em>absolute<\/em> war zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have headed into southern Louisiana on our Louisiana Gumbo Tour. \u00a0 (We, again, pride ourselves on originality.) \u00a0 We stopped in New Orleans where I gave a talk to an in-home gathering in the heart of the city on <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1012\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}