{"id":1090,"date":"2010-09-22T02:27:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T02:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=528"},"modified":"2010-09-22T02:27:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T02:27:22","slug":"only-one-thing-that-was-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"only one thing that was missing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our sons played in a \u00a0Rec. Center football game tonight in Cleveland. \u00a0 It was a hard fought game that was well coached, on both sides. \u00a0 The only thing that was missing was, well, much of an audience. \u00a0 Besides myself, there were only two other parents cheering for our team. \u00a0 But so it often goes in the cities. \u00a0 So many of these kids are latch key kids, often with just one parent at home. \u00a0 The kids down here just as often fend for themselves, trying daily to dodge hunger, drugs, bullets&#8230; \u00a0 Sometimes they&#8217;re successful, often they&#8217;re not&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Note:<\/strong> There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/joeonurbanyouth.htm\">essay<\/a> on our site that flushes this out a bit more. <strong>Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 Call me an overly proud parent, but our Jonathan, 7, was the smallest (and youngest) kid on the field tonight, yet he got in there most plays and mixed it up quite well with the big boys. \u00a0 So much so, the coach took him aside after the game and complimented him on his spirit and toughness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our sons played in a \u00a0Rec. Center football game tonight in Cleveland. \u00a0 It was a hard fought game that was well coached, on both sides. \u00a0 The only thing that was missing was, well, much of an audience. \u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1090\"><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-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","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=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}