{"id":2078,"date":"2020-02-27T01:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T01:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2020-02-27T01:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T01:20:56","slug":"bullying-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"Bullying in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dare-2-photo-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dare-2-photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dare-2-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dare-2-photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dare-2-photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dare-2-photo.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just sat in on a school talk by the Coordinator of the D.A.R.E. Program in our county for a newspaper article.  His topic was: &#8220;Bullying.&#8221;  He told the youth there are four forms of bullying: verbal, physical, social and cyber.  He then described the anxiety, stress, depression&#8230; this creates in the one being bullied.  He also said this doesn&#8217;t happen in a vacuum.  That is, often (but not always) the bully comes from a home where he\/she is neglected or abused.  In turn, they then pick out someone who appears to be weaker, in order to unconsciously take out their anger about the home situation.  [Also, as we&#8217;ve seen in recent years, sometimes the one being bullied then snaps, picks up a gun, and&#8230;]  I have traveled the country extensively looking  at peer mediation programs, conflict resolution programs&#8230; in schools.  What&#8217;s more, I&#8217;ve crafted a comprehensive position on how to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/healing-family\"> &#8220;heal the family&#8221;<\/a> in general in America.  Broken, dysfunctional families are the systemic roots of a tremendous amount of our societal problems in general.  And these days there are <em>a lot<\/em> of broken, dysfunctional families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just sat in on a school talk by the Coordinator of the D.A.R.E. Program in our county for a newspaper article. His topic was: &#8220;Bullying.&#8221; He told the youth there are four forms of bullying: verbal, physical, social and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2078\"><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-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}