{"id":502,"date":"2006-05-16T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=496"},"modified":"2006-05-16T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T15:13:43","slug":"51406","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"5\/14\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Average Joe” sighting…<\/strong> Shortly after we drove into Cleveland, I got a call on my cell phone. It was Stephen Piscura who said he’d been following the campaign for awhile now and when he saw our vehicle going by an Ohio City coffee shop, he “almost knocked over a table” trying to get to the street to flag us down… While we missed connections then, he and a couple of his friends caught up with us later in the day… In his early 20s, Stephen is a senior at Kent State University and is on fire for Christ. He is spending the summer in Bangkok working with a Christian ministry called “Remember Nhu.” This is an outreach to youth forced into the sex slave trade. A growing problem all over the world, the ministry website www.remembernhu.com calls it one of “the darkest moral tragedies of our time.” Stephen said what motivates him to help is that Christ is in the face of each of these tremendously desperate children and teens. (In places like Bangkok, children are sold by their poverty stricken parents into brothels, and the like, so the rest of the family can eat.) Note: <\/strong> If all this isn’t bad enough, these youth are also at great risk, daily, of contracting AIDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Average Joe” sighting… Shortly after we drove into Cleveland, I got a call on my cell phone. It was Stephen Piscura who said he’d been following the campaign for awhile now and when he saw our vehicle going by an …<\/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-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}