{"id":284,"date":"2005-06-21T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T16:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=278"},"modified":"2005-06-21T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T16:06:53","slug":"62005-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"6\/20\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in South Bend, Indiana, I interviewed Jonah Smith in regard to an expanded position paper we&#8217;re doing on the environment.  Smith, who majored in Ecology at Rutgers University, said farm run off in the Mississippi River Watershed Region is being transported down to the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate, creating a gigantic aquatic &#8216;dead zone&#8217; in this body of water.  Smith said a key to staving off more of this particular environmental devastation is a dramatic shift to much more: organic farming&#8230;  Smith also said modern agri-business should be looked at as a monopoly of sorts, and, ideally, there should be a move to break these up, while supporting more small farm initiatives.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  For Father&#8217;s Day yesterday, our family went to a Babe Ruth League game just over the border  in Niles, Michigan earlier in the afternoon.  This is a summer league for guys 16 to 19 years old.  We set up our lawn chairs along the right base line and simply had a wonderful time&#8230;  There was a cemetery just beside the field.  And afterward we found a grave stone with the name &#8220;Joe&#8221; to pray and talk about my father who died several years ago.  (He&#8217;s actually buried in Cleveland, but I told the children:  &#8220;Granddad will still hear us.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in South Bend, Indiana, I interviewed Jonah Smith in regard to an expanded position paper we&#8217;re doing on the environment. Smith, who majored in Ecology at Rutgers University, said farm run off in the Mississippi River Watershed Region is <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=284\"><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-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}