{"id":1127,"date":"2011-05-15T03:51:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T03:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=600"},"modified":"2011-05-15T03:51:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T03:51:45","slug":"old-negro-league-hispanics-sonograms-strategic-abandonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"old Negro League, Hispanics, sonograms, strategic abandonment…"},"content":{"rendered":"

More catching up from the last few weeks… \u00a0 In Carrabelle, Florida, we did a video segment from a small memorial to John “Buck” O’Neil. \u00a0 Born here on Nov. 13, 1911, O’Neil was a stand out in the old Negro League and went on to be the first Black coach in Major League Baseball with the Chicago Cubs. \u00a0 Later in life, he founded a Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. \u00a0 O’Neil’s most famous quote: \u00a0 “Give without remembering and take without forgetting.” \u00a0 Good words to live by… \u00a0 \u00a0 In Tallahassee, Florida, I interviewed Bill Torez who is a representative for the North Florida Hispanic Association. \u00a0 They put on regular soccer games, dances and a host of other events to keep up rapport between Hispanics here and to support keeping the culture alive, for generations to come… \u00a0 In Tallahassee, we also toured the Woman’s Clinic. \u00a0 Heather Martel, a graduate of Franciscan University, said the clinic has a state of the art sonogram machine. \u00a0 What’s more, she said figures indicate that more than 80% of women who see the sonogram picture of the baby in the womb, won’t get an abortion. \u00a0 “The ultra-sound presents women with the truth,” she said. \u00a0 Ms. Martel also said the Clinic provides post abortion counseling and “secondary virginity” education… \u00a0 We also met with a family in Tallahassee who were losing their house to foreclosure. \u00a0 (One in 10 homes are now in foreclosure in Florida since the ‘housing bubble’ burst.) \u00a0 The husband said there is now a new phenomenon in housing circles. \u00a0 It is a thing called “strategic abandonment.” \u00a0 That is, after doing the math, some homeowners decide to simply “walk away” from their house without a court fight, etc. \u00a0 He said NPR had just done a big piece on this. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 We headed west on Rte. 10 after Tallahassee, ending up in the small town of Crestview, Florida. \u00a0 Just south of here, we learned, is another small town called “Niceville.” \u00a0 It’s so ‘nice,’ in fact, the high school football players say “pardon me,” after a tackle. \u00a0 (In my ongoing efforts at transperency: I made that last sentence up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More catching up from the last few weeks… \u00a0 In Carrabelle, Florida, we did a video segment from a small memorial to John “Buck” O’Neil. \u00a0 Born here on Nov. 13, 1911, O’Neil was a stand out in the old …<\/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-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","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=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}