{"id":556,"date":"2010-11-27T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=556"},"modified":"2010-11-27T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:27:09","slug":"could-we-be-sacrificing-way-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Could we be sacrificing way more?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve stopped at the Open Door Community<\/em> \u00a0 in Atlanta. \u00a0 This is a Catholic Worker House that does outreach to the homeless. \u00a0 Liz and I will be on staff here for several months, while also looking at urban poverty issues and interviewing a wide variety of people who come here from all over the nation to volunteer… \u00a0 One of my first discussions here was with Brian Schaap, 24, who came from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to volunteer for a couple weeks. \u00a0 Several years ago, Mr. Schaap had volunteered for a year in Tanzania through the Mennonite Church’s SALT (Serving And Learning Together)<\/em> Program.<\/em> \u00a0 He helped set up a community garden at a church there. \u00a0 He said the poverty was staggering. \u00a0 What’s more, he said there was a particular tension there in regard to teaching small scale sustainable agriculture vs. importing large scale agricultural impliments which could, in the long run, push many small subsistence farmers off their land as corporate farms start to take over — as has happened in the U.S. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Mr. Schaap said experiencing Third World poverty first-hand tremendously impacted him and got him to question, much more, American lifestyles (including his own) by comparison. \u00a0 One of the things he began questioning is: \u00a0 Could we be sacrificing way more to help those in dire straights worldwide? \u00a0 It is a question our campaign poses regularly. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve stopped at the Open Door Community \u00a0 in Atlanta. \u00a0 This is a Catholic Worker House that does outreach to the homeless. \u00a0 Liz and I will be on staff here for several months, while also looking at urban …<\/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-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}