{"id":568,"date":"2011-01-24T19:25:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=568"},"modified":"2011-01-24T19:25:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:25:58","slug":"joes-state-of-the-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Joe&#8217;s State of the Union Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at this time, I gave a &#8220;State of the Union Address&#8221; at the University of Notre Dame just an hour, or so, before President Obama&#8217;s address. \u00a0 My talk that night is just as applicable to our country today. \u00a0 As you will <a href=\"http:\/\/streaming.nd.edu\/csc\/10\/01_27.wmv\">view<\/a>, it is short on political hyperbole and long on directness and common sense. \u00a0 The gist of the talk is that in the face of some tremendous dramatic problems (50 million abortions, global warming, world starvation, nuclear proliferation, inner city war zones&#8230;), much of the legislation coming out of D.C. &#8212; for quite some time &#8212; has been like &#8220;&#8230;rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.&#8221; \u00a0 What my talk outlines is how to steer the boat away from the iceberg altogether, before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at this time, I gave a &#8220;State of the Union Address&#8221; at the University of Notre Dame just an hour, or so, before President Obama&#8217;s address. \u00a0 My talk that night is just as applicable to our country <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=568\"><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-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}