{"id":1305,"date":"2012-02-11T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2012-02-11T20:03:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T20:03:52","slug":"fliers-the-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"fliers, the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last few days I’ve been going about Bluffton, Ohio (pop. 3,875), putting our new flier<\/a> up on various bulletin boards (coffee shop, laundromat…).\u00a0 And we’re asking our supporters to do the same in their towns, counties, etc.\u00a0 Amidst the swirl of Super PAC million dollar ads, and major Party candidate million dollar ads, well, we thought we’d come up with a different approach.\u00a0 Call me a minimalist… \u00a0\u00a0 Besides, we think all that money could be better spent on, oh I don’t know, maybe the people of The Democratic Republic of the Congo.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 In doing some foreign affairs research on that country this week, I learned the grinding poverty and overcrowding there — among 19 million people in eastern Congo — is leading to starvation, disease, extreme violence…\u00a0 The crisis here has largely alluded world attention, in part, because people in America, for instance, are so fixated on all the over-hype around: a presidential campaign.\u00a0 Just think how far, say, that Super PAC money would go in feeding the Congo’s hungry, bringing medicine to the sick, and helping quell the violence…\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 During a talk to a student group at Mississippi State University<\/strong>, I said our administration would focus on bringing a lot more help to the world at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last few days I’ve been going about Bluffton, Ohio (pop. 3,875), putting our new flier up on various bulletin boards (coffee shop, laundromat…).\u00a0 And we’re asking our supporters to do the same in their towns, counties, etc.\u00a0 Amidst the …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","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=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}