{"id":436,"date":"2006-02-15T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=436"},"modified":"2006-02-15T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T13:43:39","slug":"2806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"2\/8\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed Frances and Jack Huck in Picayune, Mississippi.  Several years ago they converted a free-standing garage on their property into a two bedroom apartment for Frances&#8217;s elderly mother and an aunt.  It cost $23,000 to covert the garage to a kitchen, two bedrooms and a small living room.  (Jack installed all the wiring and put in sheet rock and the doors on his own.)  Frances said it was a tremendous blessing having her children living so close to their grandmother and aunt as they grew up.  &#8220;Also, my mother had loved us growing up, and I wanted to return that.&#8221; And Frank added:  &#8220;God put us here to help each other.&#8221;  <strong>Note: <\/strong> Our platform points out that when Americans think &#8220;Social Security,&#8221; the first thing that pops into most peoples&#8217; minds is: &#8220;the Fund.&#8221;  Our belief is that Social Security should be about an elderly person feeling as &#8216;secure&#8217; as possible in their family, their neighborhood and their community &#8212; emotionally, physically, financially&#8230;  And the Hucks in Picayune, Mississippi, provide an absolutely excellent, grassroots example of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed Frances and Jack Huck in Picayune, Mississippi. Several years ago they converted a free-standing garage on their property into a two bedroom apartment for Frances&#8217;s elderly mother and an aunt. It cost $23,000 to covert the garage to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=436\"><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-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}