{"id":1056,"date":"2010-08-05T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=496"},"modified":"2010-08-05T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:36:43","slug":"in-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"…in solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"

While in Laramie, Wyoming, we also met up with some old friends from our Bluffton, Ohio, days. \u00a0 Matt Frances, his wife Kristen and daughter Penelope have been in Laramie the past two years. \u00a0 Kristen is a teacher in the elementary school and Matt works in the Archive Department at Wyoming University. \u00a0 When we knew them, they were both students at Bluffton College and quite active with social justice causes. \u00a0 At one point, they participated in a week-long tent city on the Bluffton Campus as a show of solidarity with refugees all over the world. \u00a0 (During the week, the students raised enough money to fund a Habitat for Humanity home in Afghanistan.)… \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 While in Laramie, we also met a man who was a recent graduate of Wyoming University. \u00a0 He told me during a Public Speaking course, he chose the topic of abortion. \u00a0 The visual aids he used during the talk, were pictures of unborn babies who had been dismembered during the procedure. \u00a0 He said it evoked quite a strong response… \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Also while in Laramie, I found myself in line at a grocery store behind a man wearing a t-shirt with a tremendously complex set of mathmatical equations (E=MC 2, and the like). \u00a0 Above the equations, it read: \u00a0 Don’t Drink and Derive!<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0 (He, I found out, was (What else?) an astro-physics professor at the university.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While in Laramie, Wyoming, we also met up with some old friends from our Bluffton, Ohio, days. \u00a0 Matt Frances, his wife Kristen and daughter Penelope have been in Laramie the past two years. \u00a0 Kristen is a teacher in …<\/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-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","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=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}