{"id":203,"date":"2005-01-12T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T10:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=196"},"modified":"2005-01-12T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T10:50:46","slug":"11005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"1\/10\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Vicksburg, Mississippi we talked with Mathew Emory of London, Ontario, who was here visiting the historic battle site.  Mathew said in Canada there is a lot less gun violence because guns, simply, aren&#8217;t as much a part of the culture there.  &#8220;If someone makes us <em>really<\/em> mad, we&#8217;ll just bug them to death, or something,&#8221; he smiled&#8230; We also sat in on a Sunday School Class at Bomar Baptist Church in Vicksburg.  The topic:  &#8220;How to maintain your purity in the current society.&#8221;  The most predominant suggestion was to either lose the TV altogether, or curtail watching considerably.  During a talk I gave to a morality issues graduate class at Bluffton College a couple years ago, I explained that while sitting  in a restaurant window booth with your spouse,  how many people would turn and intently, and in a prolonged fashion, watch a scantily clad woman, or man, walking down the street?  &#8220;What kind of visceral reaction would that create in your spouse?&#8221;  I asked.  Yet we&#8217;ll think nothing of sitting for hours with, or without, our spouse,  intently, and in a quite prolonged fashion, watch scantily clothed women and men through another &#8220;window&#8221; (read: TV screen) on prime time TV without thinking twice.  However unconsciously, anger often grows in a relationships as a result of this.  Divorce in society increases&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Vicksburg, Mississippi we talked with Mathew Emory of London, Ontario, who was here visiting the historic battle site. Mathew said in Canada there is a lot less gun violence because guns, simply, aren&#8217;t as much a part of the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=203\"><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-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}