{"id":603,"date":"2007-02-25T01:18:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T01:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-02-25T01:18:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T01:18:59","slug":"22407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"2\/24\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, I interviewed Kevin Pendergast, a mental health counselor who was formally with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.  He was called in to help facilitate with the &#8220;Ulster Project&#8221; in Cincinnati.  The Ulster Project brings both Protestant and Catholic youth from Northern Ireland to America to live together with host families for a year to help break down systemic prejudices.  To supplement this, the youth are exposed to things like team building exercises.  Mr. Pendergast gave the example of a sort of Outward Bound-type &#8220;High Ropes Course&#8221; where the Protestant and Catholic youth were called to work together to accomplish a task, to build camaraderie, and so on&#8230;  In our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_iraq.html\">Iraq policy paper<\/a>, I propose Iraqi Sunni and Shiite youth have access to a similar program in order to help break down the centuries of prejudice and hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, I interviewed Kevin Pendergast, a mental health counselor who was formally with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. He was called in to help facilitate with the &#8220;Ulster Project&#8221; in Cincinnati. The Ulster Project brings both <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=603\"><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-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}