{"id":1828,"date":"2018-12-17T20:45:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2018-12-17T20:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:45:57","slug":"to-russia-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1828","title":{"rendered":"To Russia, with love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was just reading in <em>USA Today<\/em> that Russia&#8217;s GDP is less than that of California&#8217;s. \u00a0What&#8217;s more, their economy, right now, is hurting. \u00a0While on the one hand, we continue to play geo-political chess with Russia over election hacking, continued aggression in the Ukraine, it&#8217;s involvement in the War in Syria&#8230;; maybe on another level, we need to be trying to <em>help<\/em> Russia more. \u00a0It occurs to me that sending more foreign aid, starting up American\/Russian sister-cities, and sending teams of, say, <em>Habitat for Humanity<\/em> volunteers&#8230; might catch Russia off guard. \u00a0In a good way. \u00a0Just a (biblical) thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading in USA Today that Russia&#8217;s GDP is less than that of California&#8217;s. \u00a0What&#8217;s more, their economy, right now, is hurting. \u00a0While on the one hand, we continue to play geo-political chess with Russia over election hacking, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1828\"><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-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","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=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}