{"id":637,"date":"2007-05-11T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=70"},"modified":"2007-05-11T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T15:16:58","slug":"51007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"5\/10\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

I interviewed Bernie Meyer this week. \u00a0 He bears a striking resemblence to \u00a0India’s late Mhatma Gandhi. And for the past five years, Meyer \u00a0has talked to college groups, civic groups, churches… about Gandhi and his teachings (white shawl, sandals, the whole thing). \u00a0 Meyer said Gandhi wore the white shawl to stand in solidarity with the poor. \u00a0 And Meyer points out that there are some 1.8 billion people worldwide living in abject poverty on $2, or less, a day. \u00a0 Meyer also tells groups that if Americans lived simply, the way Gandhi did, this would free up a tremendous amount of resources for people who don’t even \u00a0have the basics in food, shelter and medicine. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I was just told this morning by a woman who has been researching “weddings in America,” that the average U.S. wedding cost is now at: $24,900. \u00a0 Meanwhile, scores of Third World children starve to death — \u00a0daily. \u00a0 The spiritual disconnect in this country is staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I interviewed Bernie Meyer this week. \u00a0 He bears a striking resemblence to \u00a0India’s late Mhatma Gandhi. And for the past five years, Meyer \u00a0has talked to college groups, civic groups, churches… about Gandhi and his teachings (white shawl, sandals, …<\/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-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}