{"id":551,"date":"2006-12-22T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=17"},"modified":"2006-12-22T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T15:06:34","slug":"122206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"12\/22\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if we in America limited all our family and relative gift giving to one, relatively inexpensive gift per person? \u00a0 Then what if we took the approximate savings (in the billions of dollars) and sent it to, say, Nigeria, where scores of little children are starving to death \u00a0<em>every day?<\/em> \u00a0 How we in America sing <em>Joy to the World<\/em> with a \u00a0straight face &#8212; \u00a0in the midst of so much potentially, relievable worldwide human suffering &#8212; \u00a0is absolutely amazing. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0During a \u00a0campaign talk at the Bluffton Senior Center a few years back, one man asked: \u00a0 &#8220;So, you&#8217;re campaign is about asking people to sacrifice?&#8221; \u00a0 I said &#8220;yes.&#8221; \u00a0 What&#8217;s more, I told the <em>Ashland Times<\/em> that we should actually &#8216;declare war&#8217; on poverty and social injustice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if we in America limited all our family and relative gift giving to one, relatively inexpensive gift per person? \u00a0 Then what if we took the approximate savings (in the billions of dollars) and sent it to, say, Nigeria, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=551\"><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-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}