{"id":266,"date":"2005-05-17T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=260"},"modified":"2005-05-17T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T11:25:02","slug":"51505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"5\/15\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met with Francesca Peterson, who is the co-executive director for INTO (Illuminating Nations Through Offering an Opportunity).  A &#8220;fair trade&#8221; organizaiton, INTO purchases crafts artisans make in their homes in rural Ecuador.  Ms. Peterson said the crafts are then marketed here.  Besides selling the crafts, INTO puts on education seminars to inform people in the U.S. about &#8220;economic social justice.&#8221;  INTO works to live the words of Proverbs 31:9 that say: &#8220;Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.&#8221;  (Translated:  Instead of trying to get the cheapest prices possible on foreign goods in, say, Wal Mart; the spirit of this Biblical passage would have us buying these kinds of items at &#8220;fair trade&#8221; prices, so little children don&#8217;t have to go hungry in Ecuador.)  <strong>Note:  <\/strong>Last week was Yogi (of baseball fame) Bera&#8217;s birthday.  He once said:  &#8220;If you see a fork in the road: take it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met with Francesca Peterson, who is the co-executive director for INTO (Illuminating Nations Through Offering an Opportunity). A &#8220;fair trade&#8221; organizaiton, INTO purchases crafts artisans make in their homes in rural Ecuador. Ms. Peterson said the crafts are then marketed <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=266\"><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-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}