{"id":532,"date":"2006-06-29T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=525"},"modified":"2006-06-29T14:52:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T14:52:34","slug":"62906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"6\/29\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m coaching an inner city Little League baseball team this summer.  After our practice last night, I gathered the youth together and told them I expected them to practice some more between now and the first game.  One boy, from a cluster of Black youth who hang out together, approached me and asked:  &#8220;Can we borrow a ball so we can practice?&#8221;  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  During Campaign 2000 we did a stop in Keene, New Hampshire, where I learned about some dialogue between an inner city child in this state and his teacher.  The teacher asked the child what he had eaten for breakfast that day.  The child replied:  &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t my turn to eat.&#8221;  &#8230;I told the <em>Keene Sentinel<\/em> newspaper that we were asking suburban Americans to cut back considerably on their lifestyles &#8212; so these little inner city kids can eat breakfast, regularly &#8212; [and have a ball to throw around.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m coaching an inner city Little League baseball team this summer. After our practice last night, I gathered the youth together and told them I expected them to practice some more between now and the first game. One boy, from <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=532\"><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-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}