{"id":1104,"date":"2010-10-15T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T15:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=542"},"modified":"2010-10-15T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T15:35:51","slug":"the-man-with-a-tool-belt-and-kids-like-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"…the man with a tool belt, and ‘kids like shadows’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, we talked with a retired elementary teacher who had worked in the Bronx<\/strong>, New York. \u00a0 He said what we’re seeing in America is a domino effect. \u00a0 That is, as the discipline breaks down in a home, this gets translated into the classroom, which then gets transposed into all of society. \u00a0 That simple, and that tragic… \u00a0 Then it was on to Hackettstown, New Jersey. \u00a0 Here I talked with electrician Ken Rapach, who was working on a library renovation project. \u00a0 He said he’d just been talking to “the guys” about politicians in D.C. \u00a0 He said currently people in Congress get a full pension, sometimes for just serving one term. \u00a0 Why don’t these politicians, “like the rest of us,” have to be at a place a lot longer before they’re eligible for a pension? \u00a0 Mr. Rapach wondered. \u00a0 Common sense says this might even give them incentive to do a better job to stay in, the man with a tool belt on continued… \u00a0 From Hackettstown, we headed into Paterson, New Jersey. \u00a0 Poverty everywhere we turned, congestion on the streets, congestion in low-income housing, kids playing on basketball courts with rusted rims and broken glass… \u00a0 I couldn’t help but think of New Jersey’s Bruce Springstein singing: \u00a0 “Kids down here look just like shadows…”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, we talked with a retired elementary teacher who had worked in the Bronx, New York. \u00a0 He said what we’re seeing in America is a domino effect. \u00a0 That is, as the discipline breaks down 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-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","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=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}