{"id":1530,"date":"2016-04-18T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2016-04-18T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:10:00","slug":"pope-franciss-vatican-joes-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis&#8217;s Vatican; Joe&#8217;s White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this week is that Pope Francis went the the Greek island of Lesbos and took back three refugee families who will now be: &#8220;&#8230;guests of the Vatican.&#8221;\u00a0 Good idea.\u00a0 Our administration would open the White House for the same, and similar, things &#8212; as we have opened our home over the years.\u00a0 We have had what the Catholic Worker Movement refers to as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!joe-the-volunteer\/c129q\">&#8220;Christ Room&#8221; in our places<\/a> where we have, periodically, taken in homeless people.\u00a0 There is little reason many of us in America couldn&#8217;t be more generous with our space.\u00a0<strong> Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Another option is to house-share with friends, or neighbors&#8230; And take the savings to fund more, say, <em>Habitat for Humanity<\/em> home builds around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this week is that Pope Francis went the the Greek island of Lesbos and took back three refugee families who will now be: &#8220;&#8230;guests of the Vatican.&#8221;\u00a0 Good idea.\u00a0 Our administration would open the White House for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1530\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","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=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}