{"id":1534,"date":"2016-04-26T20:40:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2016-04-26T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:41:08","slug":"toothbrushes-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Toothbrushes in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently interviewed a woman who went to Haiti as part of a Mission Possible<\/em> team.\u00a0 [Mission Possible<\/em> is a Christian humanitarian aid agency.]\u00a0 Her impression shortly after landing there:\u00a0 “I’m not sure what Dante’s Seven Circles of Hell are, but I’m pretty sure I’ve skipped six of them.”<\/strong>\u00a0 She said there was searing heat, stick thin people everywhere, little electricity, even less running water, very little food.\u00a0 Her role was to primarily give dental hygiene talks at the various schools, ending the presentation with passing out a toothbrush to each student.\u00a0 She said she was absolutely amazed at the politeness and appreciation for the toothbrushes — because for many of the youth this would be one of the few things that would be theirs.\u00a0 Although this woman added that in many cases, these would become a “family toothbrush.”\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Our foreign policy<\/a> spins around getting way<\/em> more help to those in the Third World.\u00a0 When we look around at our tremendously consumption oriented society in America, in comparison to these tremendously struggling people — we should be ashamed we aren’t helping more.\u00a0 Absolutely<\/em> ashamed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently interviewed a woman who went to Haiti as part of a Mission Possible team.\u00a0 [Mission Possible is a Christian humanitarian aid agency.]\u00a0 Her impression shortly after landing there:\u00a0 “I’m not sure what Dante’s Seven Circles of Hell are, …<\/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-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","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=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}