{"id":426,"date":"2006-02-06T16:26:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T16:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=426"},"modified":"2006-02-06T16:26:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T16:26:50","slug":"12906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"1\/29\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are in motion again&#8230;  Our first stop was Plains, Georgia, home of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.  At a stop in downtown Plains, I leafed through one of Mr. Carter&#8217;s most recent books:  <em>Our Moral Crisis<\/em>.  We then drove past his home, a one story ranch style home on 2.4 acres of wooded property.  The home alone, I would imagine (while modest by American presidential standards) was worth at least $175,000.  After just seeing the mock Third World Slum Village at Habitat for Humanity&#8217;s headquarters, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder if Jimmy and Rosalyn had opted for, say, a $50,000 home in Plains (and there are a lot of these here), and sent the $125,000 bucks to the Third World where you can often build a quite adequate home for a fairly big family for $2,000&#8230; how many little children would be out of the slums in Calcutta.  One of those:  &#8216;Our Moral Crisis?&#8217;  (This is not to detract from all Mr. Carter does to help in the Third World through his Carter Center.  But it does give one pause to question how much of a <em>personal sacrifice <\/em> of our own comfort each of us Americans are willing to make to ease the burden of our brothers and sisters in the Third World.)  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  Later in the day, we stopped at the Florida Welcome Center.  While drinking some free orange juice (it continues to be a low budget campaign), the kids and I noticed clock that said: &#8220;Florida Time.&#8221;  It had no hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in motion again&#8230; Our first stop was Plains, Georgia, home of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. At a stop in downtown Plains, I leafed through one of Mr. Carter&#8217;s most recent books: Our Moral Crisis. We then drove <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=426\"><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-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}