{"id":638,"date":"2007-05-16T19:57:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T19:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=71"},"modified":"2007-05-16T19:57:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T19:57:17","slug":"51407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"5\/14\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have launched on yet another campaign tour of Ohio. \u00a0 Our first stop was South Cleveland where we talked with peace activist Tim Musser. He told us he was tremendously impacted by the writings of Dorothy Day. \u00a0 I, in turn, was impacted by a May 2007 National Geographic<\/em> article in the Musser home about the “Jamestown Settlement,” which marked it’s 400th anniversary this last weekend. \u00a0 Amidst the patriotic hoopla of the weekend celebration in Virginia, perhaps a few things got lost. \u00a0 For instance, the National Geographic<\/em> article noted that the Jamestown settlement was, basically, a ‘venture capital’ endeavor. \u00a0 The settlers were subsidized to look for gold and precious metals. \u00a0 Not finding these, they turned to growing tobacco — which became a huge cash crop driven by English demand. \u00a0 A couple problems: \u00a0 Tobacco fueled an addiction for more and more land. \u00a0 And tobacco also has an almost “unique ability to suck the life out of the soil,” according to Leanne Dubois, the agriculture extension agent in James City County… \u00a0 So we kept clear cutting more and more forest and sucked more and more land lifeless at a breakneck pace. \u00a0 Later we started using toxic farm chemicals that sucked more and more life out of the soil. \u00a0 Added to this, with urbanization we paved over a lot of soil and lawn chemicals sucked more and more life out of the soil as well. \u00a0 And now urban sprawl is doing this to more and more rural land… \u00a0 Can anyone see a pattern here? \u00a0 This is not about sustainability and the “common good.” \u00a0 Common sense would say: This just continues to be about money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have launched on yet another campaign tour of Ohio. \u00a0 Our first stop was South Cleveland where we talked with peace activist Tim Musser. He told us he was tremendously impacted by the writings of Dorothy Day. \u00a0 I, …<\/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-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}