{"id":1689,"date":"2018-01-17T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2018-01-17T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:13:14","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-service-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading that presidents Obama and Bush both designated Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a “service day,” and each volunteered at various outreaches on that day during their presidencies.\u00a0 (Trump played golf at Mar-a-Lago that day.)\u00a0 So in that tradition (no, not golfing), I spent time today doing the preliminary leg work for a Bluffton St. Mary’s Youth Group volunteer outing at the City Mission in nearby Findlay, Ohio.\u00a0 I had previously written a newspaper article about the Mission. (second story down the page)<\/a>.\u00a0 Phenomenal place.\u00a0 It has a highly creative mix of tiered programs to help the homeless get on their feet and stay on their feet.\u00a0 There are 21 people on staff and 200 active volunteers.\u00a0 They provide life skill training, job training, tutors, art therapy…\u00a0 They also liaison with such groups as Bridges Out of Poverty; Century Health (mental health service); Drug Court…\u00a0 What’s more, the Mission takes no government money.\u00a0 Most everything is subsidized by private and church donations.\u00a0 I started the article by writing that the homeless figure in America would decline by two-thirds if every significant sized town had a City Mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading that presidents Obama and Bush both designated Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a “service day,” and each volunteered at various outreaches on that day during their presidencies.\u00a0 (Trump played golf at Mar-a-Lago that day.)\u00a0 So in …<\/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-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","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=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}