{"id":2831,"date":"2023-12-24T00:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T00:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2023-12-24T00:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T00:48:06","slug":"mars-madness-construction-here-on-earth-social-security-in-its-truest-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2831","title":{"rendered":"Mars madness; construction here on earth, “social security” in its truest sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Schoonover Observatory: Lima, Ohio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last year, I’ve done a number of newspaper articles about next year’s “Total Solar Eclipse,” <\/strong>slated for April 8, 2024 — with the “…path of totality” being almost directly over our area. Hundreds of thousands of people will travel here from all over the globe. While I’m accepting of astronomy, and, indeed, believe it’s a worthwhile pursuit, in moderation; I, in no way, feel the same about space travel, not to mention the lunacy of a U.S. Space Force.<\/strong> Our stance is that we should be focusing all that money, and all that brain power, on solving the problems (poverty, environmental degradation, etc, etc…) on this<\/em> planet. Sheer, common sense… One of the articles I wrote in the last month is about “Community Relief, Inc.”<\/strong> This is a local, Christian based non-profit that does all kinds of home repair\/construction to help low-income people in about a 75-mile radius. *Much closer than going to Mars… This area also has what’s called the Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio<\/strong>. These are four “campuses” of senior living facilities. And besides a quite expert staff, MHCO also has a cadre of community volunteers who help on multiple levels. I just did an article about a master woodworker in Bluffton who is developing a series of Woodcarving Classes<\/strong> for the MHCO residents. Why? “To pay it forward,” he winked. Note: <\/strong> Our position paper on Social Security is heavy on helping seniors feel “socially secure” in our communities in general — like it was in the “old days.” To look at that paper, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schoonover Observatory: Lima, Ohio In the last year, I’ve done a number of newspaper articles about next year’s “Total Solar Eclipse,” slated for April 8, 2024 — with the “…path of totality” being almost directly over our area. Hundreds of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","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=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}