{"id":1078,"date":"2010-09-08T23:35:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T23:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=518"},"modified":"2010-09-08T23:35:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T23:35:53","slug":"water-water-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"‘Water, water everywhere…’"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re in Bluffton, Ohio, visiting friends and campaigning. \u00a0 Last night we went to a Bluffton High School soccer match. \u00a0 They were playing Wapakoneta High School. \u00a0 For you recent history buffs, Wapakoneta is the home of astronaut Neil (“One small step for man..”) Armstrong. \u00a0 That’s right, the first person to set foot on the moon. \u00a0 Between the junior varsity and the varsity soccer games, I went to the Wapakoneta side of the stands and passed out campaign cards. \u00a0 While the subject didn’t come up (whew!),<\/em> as president I’d seriously consider lobbying to at least temporarily end the Space Program. \u00a0 See, we’ve spent billions of dollars going to the moon, in part, to find out whether there’s water there. \u00a0 And we’ve spent billions of dollars going to Mars to find out the same thing. \u00a0 Meanwhile, one-sixth of the world doesn’t have access to clean drinking water on this planet<\/em>. \u00a0 The rivers, lakes and oceans on this planet<\/em> are becoming horribly polluted. \u00a0 A good number of underground aquifers are starting to dry up on this planet<\/em>… \u00a0 I could go on with this, but you get my point. \u00a0 Wouldn’t common sense say we take the money to help the water systems on this planet, before exploring for water on planets (Are you ready for this?) where we can’t even breathe the air!?<\/em> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re in Bluffton, Ohio, visiting friends and campaigning. \u00a0 Last night we went to a Bluffton High School soccer match. \u00a0 They were playing Wapakoneta High School. \u00a0 For you recent history buffs, Wapakoneta is the home of astronaut Neil …<\/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-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","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=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}