{"id":262,"date":"2005-05-10T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T12:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=256"},"modified":"2005-05-10T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T12:14:53","slug":"5805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"5\/8\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met with a group of Catholic Workers on Cleveland&#8217;s near west side who recenly staged a rather fascinating protest.  (The Catholic Workers here have a &#8220;House of Hospitality&#8221; for the homeless in the city.)  For the grand opening of an expanisve mall in the suburb of Westlake, to the west of Cleveland, the Catholic Workers showed up with such protest signs as:  <strong>&#8220;WE ARE CONSUMING OURSELVES TO DEATH!&#8221;<\/strong>  One of the protestors, Pete Qulligan, told me he originally saw that written on the side of a building in a small town in Germany.  (<em>Socially responsible grafitti<\/em>.)  Another Catholic Worker, Chris Knestrick, said its such a tremendous irony that a $480 million mall would go up not more than 15 miles from Cleveland &#8212; which has recently been dubbed the: &#8220;poorest city in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met with a group of Catholic Workers on Cleveland&#8217;s near west side who recenly staged a rather fascinating protest. (The Catholic Workers here have a &#8220;House of Hospitality&#8221; for the homeless in the city.) For the grand opening of an <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=262\"><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-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}