{"id":1086,"date":"2010-10-21T01:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-10-21T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T01:58:13","slug":"over-crowding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"over crowding?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While in Southhold, New York (at the eastern end of Long Island), I learned that to curb over crowding” in this rather well-to-do area, zoning now only allows for one single family dwelling \u00a0on an acre of land. \u00a0 I recently read an article about a slum in India that has 18,000 people for every acre of land. \u00a0 What an amazing social justice disparity, huh… \u00a0 We headed back east, stopping in Farmingdale, New York. \u00a0 In the concourse of a mall there is a pro-life display, with a wide screen TV continually showing live (literally) scenes of little babies in their mothers’ wombs at all different stages of development. \u00a0 How we can allow these babies to be killed is just totally beyond me… \u00a0 Back in Southhold, I had interviewed Ann Reitman at a new Birthright satellite office there. \u00a0 Birthright provides counseling and referrals to things like government programs (WIC, as an example) all intended to help mothers with their pregnancies. \u00a0 In addition, Birthright provides some money for doctors, housing, and other suplmental support for mothers… \u00a0 Coming back east, we passed the town of Babylon, New York. \u00a0 Enough said. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Long Island bumper sticker sighting (on a compact car): \u00a0 Hummers are Bummers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While in Southhold, New York (at the eastern end of Long Island), I learned that to curb over crowding” in this rather well-to-do area, zoning now only allows for one single family dwelling \u00a0on an acre of land. \u00a0 I …<\/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-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","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=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}