{"id":1025,"date":"2010-05-18T22:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T22:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=463"},"modified":"2010-05-18T22:03:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T22:03:48","slug":"little-time-for-teenage-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"little time for ‘teenage angst’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met with Baylor University<\/strong> professor Tyler Horner again. \u00a0 He said adolescents today are \u00a0flooded with choices around computer technology, television choices, other entertainment options… And in all this they have the luxury of (and time for) \u00a0tremendously self-focused teenage angst, if you will. \u00a0 \u00a0Professor Horner \u00a0said that during the 1950s, for instance, a majority of teens had fewer choices and often entered into the work world much quicker. \u00a0 As a result, they had to “grow up way quicker,” said Professor Horner… \u00a0 \u00a0Later in the day, \u00a0I gave a talk to a group of Baylor University professors<\/strong>. \u00a0 I said as president I’d work stridently to stop violence in our inner cities. \u00a0 Some eight youths are killed by gun violence in these cities — every day… \u00a0 The next day I met Bryan Arispe<\/strong> and his family. \u00a0 Great people. \u00a0 We had lunch together in a park \u00a0at Waco. \u00a0 \u00a0Arispe is an expert woodworker and helped build former President George Bush’s house at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. \u00a0 He said the window frames were \u00a0imported \u00a0from Europe… \u00a0 The next day we stopped at Heritage Farm<\/strong> in Elm Mott, Texas. \u00a0 Operated by Heritage Ministries, the people here live in Christian community and practice the old fashion crafts of blacksmithing, weaving, plowing with draft horses… \u00a0 “These are homesteading skills and crafts that take place in a plexus of relationships with creation and creatures,” they say. \u00a0 “The notion of work solely for profit is a product of secularization. \u00a0 (Our lifestyle) is not ramanticized nostalgia… It is an exemplary Christian existence.” \u00a0 …From Heritage Farm, we then visited World Hunger Relief Inc.,<\/strong> also in Elm Mott, Texas. \u00a0 Here World Hunger’s Dale Barron said to us that America withholds (overeating, spending money on non-nutritious junk food and beverage, throwing good food away…) a tremendous amount of food from the world. \u00a0 World Hunger Inc. is a teaching farm. \u00a0 People come here to intern from all over the country, said World Hunger’s David Cole. \u00a0 They learn about sustainable, low-tech farming practices, then go on Third World missions, and the like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I met with Baylor University professor Tyler Horner again. \u00a0 He said adolescents today are \u00a0flooded with choices around computer technology, television choices, other entertainment options… And in all this they have the luxury of (and time for) \u00a0tremendously self-focused …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","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=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}