{"id":635,"date":"2007-05-04T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=68"},"modified":"2007-05-04T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T15:01:10","slug":"5407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"5\/4\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a review of a new book titled <em>Boomsday<\/em>. \u00a0 The review said it was a &#8220;wickedly funny&#8221; fictitious book about the 77 million &#8220;Baby Boomers&#8221; moving into retirement &#8212; <em>by stepping aside and committing mass suicide<\/em>&#8230; \u00a0 Fiction, sometimes, is a predictor of the future. \u00a0 Space travel. \u00a0 In a society that is paying less and less attention (or respect) to the elderly, it&#8217;s not much of a stretch to think we&#8217;re going to see more and more euthanasia (assisted suicide) in that population. \u00a0 Oregon. \u00a0 And who knows where it will go from \u00a0there. \u00a0 It is our campaign&#8217;s belief that we should be going in the other direction. \u00a0 That is, the elderly must once again be esteemed and learned from, as it was in the days of old in this society and as it continues to be in other cultures. \u00a0 To this end, we have just significantly updated our position on \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/socialsecurity.html\">Social Security<\/a> \u00a0to provide a blue print for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a review of a new book titled Boomsday. \u00a0 The review said it was a &#8220;wickedly funny&#8221; fictitious book about the 77 million &#8220;Baby Boomers&#8221; moving into retirement &#8212; by stepping aside and committing mass suicide&#8230; \u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=635\"><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-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}