{"id":561,"date":"2010-12-17T19:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T19:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=561"},"modified":"2010-12-17T19:46:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T19:46:27","slug":"hes-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our family is volunteering at the <a href=\"http:\/\/opendoorcommunity.org\/\">Open Door Community<\/a> in Atlanta, Georgia, this winter. \u00a0 The Open Door is an outreach to the homeless. \u00a0 The last couple nights, because of frigid temperatures here, we have become a temporary night shelter. \u00a0 Part of what prompted this was that the first night the temperatures were in single digits (with the wind chill factor), someone died on the streets of exposure. \u00a0 There are some 10,000 homeless people in the greater Atlanta region. \u00a0 <em>Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em> <em>Magazine<\/em> just noted that the top 20% of Americans own 84% of the wealth of this nation. \u00a0 And the bottom 20% own 0.1% of the wealth. \u00a0 The guy who froze to death was in the latter category. \u00a0 On our last campaign tour, I told the <em>Amarillo Globe News<\/em> that my administration would have some of the guys on the street: <em>living<\/em> in the Lincoln Bedroom. \u00a0 I mean, I don&#8217;t think Lincoln would mind. \u00a0 He&#8217;s dead. \u00a0 The room&#8217;s open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our family is volunteering at the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia, this winter. \u00a0 The Open Door is an outreach to the homeless. \u00a0 The last couple nights, because of frigid temperatures here, we have become a temporary night <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=561\"><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-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}