{"id":468,"date":"2010-05-28T21:26:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=468"},"modified":"2010-05-28T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T21:26:19","slug":"20-kids-and-issues-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"20 kids and issues with China&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Lubbock, Texas, my wife Liz interviewed Alice Mata for a book she is working on about women around the country. \u00a0 Alice is the mother of five young children and came from a family of 20 children. \u00a0 She said that the doctor recommended to her mom that she quit after seven children, for health reasons. \u00a0 The mom replied that whe wanted to be open to how many children God wanted her to have. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Over population is not our problem. \u00a0 The problem lies in urbinization and inadequate resource distribution&#8230; \u00a0  \u00a0 While in Lubbock, I was also interviewed by the <em>ABC News<\/em> affiliate. \u00a0 At one point in the interview, I was asked about my position toward China. \u00a0 I said that China currently owns a lot of our debt, which tremendously weakens our position in regard to pushing them on human rights issues there. \u00a0 (There are many reports, for instance, of Christians being tortured and killed for their faith in China. \u00a0 Not to mention forced abortions under the one child policy, etc.) \u00a0 As president, I would lobby to pay off the debt to China quickly and remove the country from a &#8220;favored nation status&#8221; when it comes to trade. \u00a0 &#8220;The economy should never trump human rights issues,&#8221; I added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Lubbock, Texas, my wife Liz interviewed Alice Mata for a book she is working on about women around the country. \u00a0 Alice is the mother of five young children and came from a family of 20 children. \u00a0 She <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=468\"><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-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}