{"id":680,"date":"2007-08-17T18:26:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T18:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=113"},"modified":"2007-08-17T18:26:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T18:26:31","slug":"81607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"8\/16\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;average JoeOhio Tour cont: \u00a0 We&#8217;ve headed west into Ohio stopping in Norwalk. \u00a0 A man-on-the-street, Harold, told me he found it amazing (and scandalous) how much better our lifestyles in America were in comparison to those in the Third World. \u00a0 He said to try and make things more equitable, he regularly donates to the international aid agency: Food for the Poor&#8230; We then did a whistle-stop event in downtown Norwalk where a reporter from the <em>Norwalk Reflector<\/em> asked me about my biggest issues. \u00a0 I said with global warming and nuclear proliferation, in either case, our kids might not have a world to grow up in. \u00a0 And with abortion, some kids never make it into the world at large in the first place&#8230; We then stopped at Sheri&#8217;s Coffee Shop (excellent place) in Norwalk where I sat in on part of a Bible Study. \u00a0 I said what Harold (mentioned earlier) was doing to help the poor could very well diminish the ranks of Al Quaida. \u00a0 That is, the more youth in the Third World see a way out of abject poverty, the less apt they&#8217;d be to join a terrorist cell (often a Third World version of a gang). \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;average JoeOhio Tour cont: \u00a0 We&#8217;ve headed west into Ohio stopping in Norwalk. \u00a0 A man-on-the-street, Harold, told me he found it amazing (and scandalous) how much better our lifestyles in America were in comparison to those in the Third <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=680\"><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-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}