{"id":318,"date":"2005-08-12T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T12:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=312"},"modified":"2005-08-12T12:12:59","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T12:12:59","slug":"8805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"8\/8\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent front page article in <em>The New York Times <\/em>described the current famine in the country of Niger.  Because of drought last year in this country, the second poorest country in the world, one in five young children are currently dying of starvation there, in large part because of &#8220;world apathy,&#8221; according to the <em>Times<\/em> article.  (The article was accompanied by a graphic, front page picture of a stick-thin, 16 month old child, &#8220;Baby Boy Saminou,&#8221; who had just succumbed to starvation.)&#8230;  In Blythe, California, (still along Hwy 95) I interviewed Fr. Anthony from Nigeria, the next country south of Niger in Africa.  Fr. Anthony said he has seen such incidence of famine over the years in that part of the world.  And he said, perhaps, Americans just simply can&#8217;t relate.  &#8220;If you have not traveled out of the country, your country can seem like the end of the world,&#8221;  Fr. Anthony said&#8230;  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  I couldn&#8217;t help but think with modern media, the &#8220;Baby Boy Saminou&#8217;s&#8221; of these times are right at our &#8220;gate&#8221; &#8212; just like Lazarrus the beggar was right at the rich guy&#8217;s gate in the gospel parable.  It didn&#8217;t fare well for the rich guy (read: Hell); and I wonder how it will fare for us Americans as we continue on with our rich (compared to much of the rest of the world) lifestyles &#8212; while meanwhile, these little Third World children continue to: die?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent front page article in The New York Times described the current famine in the country of Niger. Because of drought last year in this country, the second poorest country in the world, one in five young children are <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=318\"><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-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}