{"id":282,"date":"2005-06-21T15:22:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=276"},"modified":"2005-06-21T15:22:04","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T15:22:04","slug":"61805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"6\/18\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in northern Indiana, we learned of an excellent social justice program.  In Kimmel, Indiana, a group of farmers (and others) are involved with a &#8220;Common Ground Growing Project.&#8221;  They are farming a common plot of land, with the proceeds going to the Foods Resource Bank, which is a Christian based initiative to get money to 25 Third World countries for seeds, farm tools, irrigation equipment, animals&#8230; all in an effort to help farmers in these other countries become more sustainable.  I told the <em>Advance News <\/em>newspaper in Napanee, Indiana that our platform calls for dramatically stepped up programs like these to help in the Third World.  <strong>Note:  <\/strong>While in Napanee, we went to a supermarket that had a significant amount of parking for Amish buggies.  The kids and I walked about looking at the horses, talking to some of the Amish.  And I couldn&#8217;t help but think what a sane response many more of these buggies (and bicycles&#8230;) would be to global warming &#8212; and all the domino effects that are happening to nature  as a result, including tremendous damage to wildlife habitat&#8230; Coincidentally enough (read: providentially enough), as we walked about the buggies, we happened on a man wearing a t-shirt that said: <strong>&#8220;Extinct is forever.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in northern Indiana, we learned of an excellent social justice program. In Kimmel, Indiana, a group of farmers (and others) are involved with a &#8220;Common Ground Growing Project.&#8221; They are farming a common plot of land, with the proceeds <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=282\"><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-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}