{"id":321,"date":"2005-08-13T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=315"},"modified":"2005-08-13T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T13:24:46","slug":"81205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"8\/12\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have intersected with Rte 160, our last tour Route on the way back to Ohio. We connected with 160 at it’s beginning near Tuba City, Arizona, just outside of the Hopi Reservation. I stumped with a group of some mostly Native American Boy Scouts, Eagle Scouts and their adult leaders. (They were doing a service project on the grounds of the Church of Latter Day Saints in Tuba City.) One of the leaders said: “Finally<\/em>, this what I’ve been waiting for: an ‘average Joe’ for president.” Later that evening, I played in a pick-up game of basketball with some Native Americans at St. Jude’s Gymn. The man who organizes the games (three evenings a week), told me it was a good way “to keep some of the guys off the streets…” A good thing, apparently, because the streets in these parts, for one, are top heavy with drunk drivers, said Fr. Jerome Herff in Kayente, Arizona, where a majority of the populace is Navajo. Fr. Herff said in one week he did three funerals, all involving drunk driving incidence… Fr. Herff told me a professional counselor in his congregation did a documentary on transgenerational post traumatic stress in the Navajo Tribe as a result of colonialization. The theory being a beaten people (read: unconscienable “ethnic cleansing” of the Native Americans) internalize the anger, the shame, and turn it inward on themselves, their families. This, in turn, leads to heightenned levels of transgenerational depression, alcoholism, suicide… Fr. Herff also told me he supports the group: “Feminists for Life.” He said the group, which has chapters nationwide, goes into liberal universities like Brown (Ivy League), and so on, to educate young, impressionable students about Life issues — so they just aren’t getting all their information from Pro-Choice groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have intersected with Rte 160, our last tour Route on the way back to Ohio. We connected with 160 at it’s beginning near Tuba City, Arizona, just outside of the Hopi Reservation. I stumped with a group of some …<\/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-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}