{"id":546,"date":"2006-12-04T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=12"},"modified":"2006-12-04T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T14:59:51","slug":"12204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"12\/2\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk on <em>Finding Common Ground in Politics<\/em> at the Oberlin, Ohio, &#8220;Peace Potluck&#8221; tonight. \u00a0 During the Q &amp; A period, people from the audience talked about their protests at the School of the Americas, their work to end the death penalty, their support of Christian Peacekeeper Teams&#8230; The energy to live out their faith was not only palpable, it was inspiring. \u00a0 When the subject of Iraq came up, Ed Horner suggested we follow the &#8220;Truth and Reconciliation&#8221; initiative that \u00a0was so successful \u00a0in South Africa \u00a0in bringing about a peaceful end to Apartheid. \u00a0 Churches around the world twinned with churches in South Africa to provide humanitarian aid and to set up groups to \u00a0teach about reconcilliation and forgiveness. \u00a0 It worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk on Finding Common Ground in Politics at the Oberlin, Ohio, &#8220;Peace Potluck&#8221; tonight. \u00a0 During the Q &amp; A period, people from the audience talked about their protests at the School of the Americas, their work <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=546\"><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-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","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=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}