{"id":191,"date":"2004-12-30T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=184"},"modified":"2004-12-30T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T16:15:57","slug":"121904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"12\/19\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several entries back I wrote about an extremely alarming news report about the Netherlands allowing the killing of some new borns with serious physical maladies.  Today in Irvington, Kentucky we met Ray Meredith whose daughter (who is a doctor in St. Louis) has adopted three children from other countries with physical and emotional disabilities.  As an extension, Dr. Jennifer Ladage has established and directs the Foreign Adoption Clinic and Education Services (FACES) clinic in St. Louis.  A team of doctors here provide medical help for foreign adopted children who are often plagued with malnutrition, dvelopmental problems, infectious diseases&#8230; Ray told us his daughter is a Christian and her desire to help primarily eminates from her spirituality.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  At the Green Valley Restuarant in Irving there is a plaque on the wall that says:  &#8220;Momma says there is not much to see in a small town, but what you hear makes up for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several entries back I wrote about an extremely alarming news report about the Netherlands allowing the killing of some new borns with serious physical maladies. Today in Irvington, Kentucky we met Ray Meredith whose daughter (who is a doctor in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=191\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}