{"id":317,"date":"2005-08-09T19:27:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=311"},"modified":"2005-08-09T19:27:05","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:27:05","slug":"8705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"8\/7\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way to a conference on a &#8220;Nuclear Free World&#8221; at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, we had to go along &#8220;the strip,&#8221; with all the casinos, electronic billboards with practically naked show girls, and so on&#8230;  (Trying to get the kids not to look was getting, oh, a bit nuts after awhile &#8212; it was <em>that<\/em> pervasive, and perverse.)  As coincidence would have it, the same day we were driving the Las Vegas Strip amidst all this, a story about our campaign ran in the <em>Idaho County Free Press<\/em>.  Editor David Rauzi wrote:  Schriner is concerned with continually declining moral (id, post_author, post_date, post_content, post_title, post_category, post_excerpt, post_status, comment_status, ping_status, post_password, post_name,to_ping, pinged, post_modified)  VALUES portrayed in media that gradually influence and desensitize people until the abnormal is considered normal&#8230;  <strong>Note:  <\/strong>I couldn&#8217;t help but think the people in Vegas (L.A., Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland&#8230;) being exposed to all this on the street, day in and day out, have, indeed, lost their perspective and are simply accepting the whole thing as: &#8220;just a normal part of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way to a conference on a &#8220;Nuclear Free World&#8221; at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, we had to go along &#8220;the strip,&#8221; with all the casinos, electronic billboards with practically naked show girls, and so on&#8230; (Trying to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=317\"><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-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}