{"id":2602,"date":"2022-03-10T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2022-03-10T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:32:12","slug":"ukraine-outreach-and-u-s-dept-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine outreach; &#8230;and U.S. Dept. of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1020\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-photo-2-1024x1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-photo-2-1024x1020.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-photo-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-photo-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-photo-2-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-photo-2-301x300.jpg 301w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-photo-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>photo by Joe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I write this, the war in Ukraine is into its second week, and it is absolutely <em>raging <\/em>now.  Meanwhile, the world looks on.  While interviewing a couple volunteers at the used bookstore downtown, they said they couldn&#8217;t &#8220;&#8230;just look on.&#8221;  They had to do something.  So, they set up a <strong>Donation Center <\/strong>to funnel money to the <strong>Mennonite Central Committee<\/strong> (MCC), which has an arm in Ukraine.  They are on the ground providing food, coats, shelter&#8230;  MCC is connected to an umbrella of non-violent &#8220;peace churches,&#8221; the Amish, Mennonites, Church of the Brethren&#8230;  Their ethos is that, as soldiers are willing to die in a war for the cause, so, too, should Christian Peacekeepers be willing to die in a war for their cause as well&#8230;  <strong>*Note: <\/strong>Our administration proposes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/us-dept-of-peace\">U.S. Department of Peace<\/a>, as a supplement to the U.S. Defense Department.  That is, we believe we should be as proactive as possible in employing pre-emptive strategies to build peace worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo by Joe As I write this, the war in Ukraine is into its second week, and it is absolutely raging now. Meanwhile, the world looks on. While interviewing a couple volunteers at the used bookstore downtown, they said they <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2602\"><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-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","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=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}