{"id":481,"date":"2006-04-26T10:47:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T10:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=481"},"modified":"2006-04-26T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T10:47:34","slug":"42406","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"4\/24\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

We drove into Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where we met with Robert Waldrop, a quintessential ‘extra-mile American,’ if there ever <\/em>was one. Some seven years ago he started the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House out of his modest, one-story home on the city’s near Northwest side. And periodically, he has taken in the homeless and others simply down on their luck. In a small house behind the regular home, he has operated a food pantry that has gotten tons of food to the needy all over the city. And Mr. Waldrop doesn’t just give to the poor, he fights for them. At the time of the interview, he was just off a 2006 run for mayor of Oklahoma City. He told me he ran to raise issues about the destruction of low-income housing for the poor and the lack of an adequate mass transit system in Oklahoma City (which, again, primarily affects the poor). And not only did he get the issues into public debate with his run, he actually garnered 8% of the vote — and he’d only spent $200 (which was the filing fee) on the campaign. What’s more, on his one-seventh of an acre of land in his Gatewood Neighborhood, he’s planted clusters of trees, grows some 100 different types of food in raised beds gardens, with fruit bushes, and so on. “A well kept lawn is a waste of productive land, unless you’re grazing sheep,” he said. And Mr. Waldrop’s home is ultra-energy efficient as well, with creative insulation, a hot water heater with a switch to turn it on only when it’s needed, double pane windows. And this all comes out of wanting to be the best environmental steward possible. Mr. Waldrop, who is the full-time music director at Epiphany Catholic Church in the city here, also publishes the newspaper Better Times <\/em>“…an occasional almanac of useful information about simple, sustainable and frugal living.” For more on Mr. Waldrop, stay tuned to our Back Road Journal <\/em>for a full column…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We drove into Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where we met with Robert Waldrop, a quintessential ‘extra-mile American,’ if there ever was one. Some seven years ago he started the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House out of his modest, one-story home on …<\/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-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}