{"id":1053,"date":"2010-07-28T18:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=493"},"modified":"2010-07-28T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:15:27","slug":"quality-time-peace-and-justice-and-ever-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"quality time, peace and justice, and: Ever Open?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <em>Rocky Mountain High Tour<\/em> in Colorado is winding down&#8230; \u00a0 I was just interviewed by <em>Channel 5 News<\/em> here. \u00a0 I said I was running for president as a &#8220;concerned parent from the Midwest.&#8221; \u00a0 And I said it was just not a sane society to be raising kids in anymore \u00a0amidst the drugs, the violence, the sex&#8230; \u00a0 Over the weekend, I was on a local Catholic radio show called <em>Rome in the Rockies<\/em>. I said I had read where the average &#8220;quality time&#8221; between parents and their children each day in America is now: eight minutes. \u00a0 Kids are being raised in front of television, in front of computers&#8230; \u00a0 At a downtown restaurant here, I noticed some Norman Rockwell paintings. \u00a0 That was such a simpler time and one where kids, for the most part, got a much more wholesome upbringing&#8230; \u00a0 Near Laporte, Colorado, we met Janie Stein and Martin Bates. \u00a0 They are full-tim RVers who are taking their music on the road. \u00a0 Their band is \u00a0<em><strong>The States<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0 and \u00a0they refer to themselves as &#8220;Wandering Minstrels for Peace.&#8221; \u00a0 They are Christian Peacemaker Team members who have been to Colombia and Canada working with human rights groups. \u00a0 &#8220;As war tax resistors (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwtrcc.org\/\">www.nwtrcc.org<\/a>), we experiment with a lifestyle of simplifying our needs (living below the poverty line) in order to decrease our subsidizing torture and other war-making,&#8221; they write. \u00a0 Martin, who was in the Air Force for 20 years, said to me: \u00a0 &#8220;Plenty of people speak out for war and violence; there needs to be people speaking out for peace.&#8221; \u00a0 And Janie added that she had &#8220;sat on the sidelines long enough,&#8221; and now it was time for her to take a stand for peace, justice and environmental stewardship.&#8221; \u00a0 <strong>Note: \u00a0 <\/strong>Fort Collins is the home of the <strong><em>Ever Open Cafe<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0 The hours are from &#8220;6 a.m. to 10 p.m.&#8221; \u00a0 Am I missing something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Rocky Mountain High Tour in Colorado is winding down&#8230; \u00a0 I was just interviewed by Channel 5 News here. \u00a0 I said I was running for president as a &#8220;concerned parent from the Midwest.&#8221; \u00a0 And I said it <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1053\"><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-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","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=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}