{"id":550,"date":"2006-12-19T18:50:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T18:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=16"},"modified":"2006-12-19T18:50:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T18:50:40","slug":"121906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"12\/19\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last week I&#8217;ve been working on a position paper about: terrorism. \u00a0 And I start the paper with an overarching lens through which I believe we should view our contribution to the world of terrorism. \u00a0 The late Thomas Merton, who was a monk and a well known author, wrote that hatred of ourselves is often too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. \u00a0 So we minimize our &#8220;sins,&#8221; and exaggerate the faults of others&#8230; \u00a0 The enemy&#8217;s bombs are always from Hell. \u00a0 Our bombs are always from &#8220;Divine Providence.&#8221; \u00a0 And speaking of bombs: \u00a0 &#8220;What if we let the weapons inspectors into Montana?&#8221; \u00a0 I posed to an <em>ABC News<\/em> reporter out of Toledo, Ohio? \u00a0 The point being that we&#8217;re hyper-concerned with North Korea, Iran and other &#8220;rogue&#8221; nations developing nuclear weapons &#8212; <em>while we have 10,000 nuclear warheads aimed all over the world!<\/em> \u00a0 Why wouldn&#8217;t the countries those warheads are aimed at consider us &#8220;a potential terrorist threat?&#8221; \u00a0 I mean, c&#8217;mmon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last week I&#8217;ve been working on a position paper about: terrorism. \u00a0 And I start the paper with an overarching lens through which I believe we should view our contribution to the world of terrorism. \u00a0 The late <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=550\"><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-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}