{"id":1323,"date":"2012-03-04T00:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T00:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2012-03-04T00:42:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T00:42:43","slug":"brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

We met with Becky and Ben Gambrell this week.\u00a0 For three years they were missionaries in Brazil, currently one of the poorest countries in the world.\u00a0 The Gambrells said in Brazil there was little in the way of medicine and little in the way of material goods, and so on.\u00a0 Ben said he found the transition hard coming back to the States because he’d hear people here complaining about what he now perceived as tremendously small<\/em>\u00a0 things — in comparison to the plight of the people in Brazil.\u00a0 For instance, I’d just read that some 2,000 orphaned children in the slums of Brazil are tortured and killed every year (by police) because they’re begging for food, for instance, is a nuisance.\u00a0 Meanwhile many American kids are living with touch I-Phones, X-Boxes, three full meals a day and snacks…\u00a0 and regularly wanting more to boot.\u00a0 We would all do well to take some “cross-cultural” trips to impoverished countries, to not only put life in America in perspective, but to make these other peoples’ plights a lot more real — so we’d feel compelled to help more.\u00a0 Our foreign aid is currently 4%, and a lot of it goes to countries to help protect our interests (read: things like oil).\u00a0 Some 57% of our budget goes to our military — which is more than: the next 17 countries combined.\u00a0 You read that right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We met with Becky and Ben Gambrell this week.\u00a0 For three years they were missionaries in Brazil, currently one of the poorest countries in the world.\u00a0 The Gambrells said in Brazil there was little in the way of medicine and …<\/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-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","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=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}