{"id":658,"date":"2007-06-30T14:19:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=91"},"modified":"2007-06-30T14:19:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T14:19:36","slug":"62907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"6\/30\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended a Memorial Service in Cleveland last weekend for Bruce Edward Horner, an Army medic who was killed in Iraq this month. \u00a0 His brother, Doug, is a good friend of mine — and a peace activist. \u00a0 Doug is also the pastor of St. Paul’s Community Church in the heart of the city here. \u00a0 (Half of his congregation are homeless people.) \u00a0 Doug gave an emotional talk about his brother and ended by saying if the sniper would have gotten to know Doug, he never would have killed him. \u00a0 The service ended with the song: \u00a0 Let There Be Peace On Earth.<\/em> \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> Afterward I told a reporter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/em> that as Doug was a soldier for God and for his convictions, so is his brother — who works in his own “war zone” in inner city Cleveland. \u00a0 What’s more, I added that our country would be a lot better off if there were more brothers like Bruce and Doug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended a Memorial Service in Cleveland last weekend for Bruce Edward Horner, an Army medic who was killed in Iraq this month. \u00a0 His brother, Doug, is a good friend of mine — and a peace activist. \u00a0 Doug …<\/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-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}