{"id":411,"date":"2006-01-12T08:46:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T08:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=411"},"modified":"2006-01-12T08:46:45","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T08:46:45","slug":"1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"1\/9\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago we had stopped in Rome, Georgia where we met with Tom Farmer.  Farmer has studied the writings of G.K. Chesterton at length and informed us about the American Chesterton Society.  One of the things Chesterton championed was &#8220;distributism,&#8221; a third way of economic order (besides socialism and capitalism).  It is a concept that comes out of Catholic Church teaching about social justice and emphasizes that:  &#8220;the ownership of the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the populace.&#8221;  Simply put, as many people as possible should be able to own businesses (either individually, or in a &#8220;co-op&#8221; way) so there is a good measure of economic and social parity.  The opposite of this, in one sense, would be the current trend in American society toward corporate mergers, big box retailers like Wal-Marts, etc.  This idea was adopted by the Catholic Worker movement in respect to their decentralized vision of many more localized and indpendent communities that were highly interdependent.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  Our Economic Philosophy very much reflects the concept of distributism.  See &#8220;what joe stands for,&#8221; then click on: Economy. Also, there is a Chesterton Society group at St. Mary&#8217;s Church in Rome, Georgia, as there are throughout the country.  For more on the society, see: www.chesterton.org &#8212; The American Chesterton Society (Common Sense for the World&#8217;s Uncommon Nonsense).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago we had stopped in Rome, Georgia where we met with Tom Farmer. Farmer has studied the writings of G.K. Chesterton at length and informed us about the American Chesterton Society. One of the things Chesterton championed was <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=411\"><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-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}