{"id":1482,"date":"2016-01-28T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2016-01-28T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:54:00","slug":"after-school-tutoring-cuban-missile-crisis-bible-study-joe-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"after school tutoring; Cuban Missile Crisis; Bible study; Joe Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet still<\/em> more catching up on the last few months…\u00a0 I’ve done a good number of articles for my wife’s magazines <\/a>over the winter.\u00a0 For instance, I just interviewed a woman who volunteers at a Youth For Christ outreach to youth in a hardscrabble area of Lima, Ohio.\u00a0 She helps in the After-School Tutoring Program.\u00a0 What’s more, one of her daughters and a son-in-law have just returned from Liberia where they were exhaustively working to place orphaned children in the aftermath of the Ebola crisis…\u00a0 I also interviewed a man in Lima who had found himself at the epicenter of the now famous “Cuban Missile Crisis.”\u00a0 For two weeks in October of 1962, a high stakes geopolitical chess match played out between the U.S. and the Soviet Union — over nuclear missiles being secretly placed in Cuba.\u00a0 The man I interviewed was in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and his division was standing by at the time to be sent in on the front line, if President Kennedy ordered an attack…\u00a0 I have also been attending a Tuesday morning (6:30 a.m.) Bible Study at Arby’s Restaurant.\u00a0 In recent weeks we’ve talked a lot<\/em> about how our society is devolving spiritually.\u00a0 The conversation has revolved around, say, media addiction — and what that media is predominately relaying (massive amounts of sexual imagery, violent imagery, rampant materialism…) these days.\u00a0 What’s more, we’re allowing children at younger and younger ages to view all this, too…\u00a0 And on a lighter note, I’ve been playing a lot of Thursday morning (6 a.m.) basketball<\/a> with the local guys at Bluffton University’s gym this winter.\u00a0 I’ve made some shots, missed some shots… and go by the philosophy:\u00a0 “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet still more catching up on the last few months…\u00a0 I’ve done a good number of articles for my wife’s magazines over the winter.\u00a0 For instance, I just interviewed a woman who volunteers at a Youth For Christ outreach to …<\/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-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","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=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}