{"id":673,"date":"2007-08-03T18:53:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T18:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=106"},"modified":"2007-08-03T18:53:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T18:53:32","slug":"8207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"8\/2\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked at a Peace and Justice group at St. Patrick’s Church in Kent, Ohio, tonight. \u00a0 Before the group, one man told me about falling off his bike and breaking some ribs. \u00a0 Luckily he has healthcare insurance. \u00a0 In Northfield, Minnesota, during Campaign 2004, I met a dishwasher who had fallen off his bike and broke a wrist. \u00a0 He didn’t have healthcare insurance — and wrapped his wrist in: Duck Tape… \u00a0 Tonight I learned St. Patrick’s group helps with Habitat for Humanity; collects hats, gloves and blankets for the poor; is helping sponsor the building of a health clinic in a village in Nigeria… What’s more, one of the group members has developed “Love Light” to provide meals for underprivileged children and they are developing an arm of the program to help children with physical and developmental difficulties. \u00a0 And \u00a0St. Patrick’s group \u00a0also sponsors an “Over the Counter Drug Drive” to help low-income people with over the counter medication. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The next day I told Dave O’Brien, a reporter for the local paper here, that it is groups like St. Patrick’s that form the unsung, grassroots backbone of this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked at a Peace and Justice group at St. Patrick’s Church in Kent, Ohio, tonight. \u00a0 Before the group, one man told me about falling off his bike and breaking some ribs. \u00a0 Luckily he has healthcare insurance. \u00a0 …<\/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-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}