{"id":685,"date":"2007-08-25T14:10:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=118"},"modified":"2007-08-25T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:10:40","slug":"82107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"8\/21\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve come back home to Cleveland. \u00a0I interviewed Athmo Bhandari in nearby Westlake, Ohio. \u00a0 He&#8217;s from India. \u00a0 He said the people of America are already at war, with themselves. \u00a0 That is, he said an extremely large portion of the population are on any \u00a0combination of synthetic drugs (prozac, rittalin, vallium&#8230;). A just as significant portion are addicted to any combination of &#8216;illegal&#8217; drugs (cocaine, heroine, marijuana&#8230;). \u00a0 Then there are all those addicted to alcohol. \u00a0 And if it isn&#8217;t these substances, it&#8217;s rampant materialism, compulsive sexual acting out, compulsive overeating&#8230; Isn&#8217;t it fascinating how people from other cultures see us, much more objectively. \u00a0 I&#8217;m a former drug and alcohol counselor and I know the reason we can&#8217;t see it very objectively, just like an active alcoholic can&#8217;t see it very objectively, is simply: \u00a0 <em>because we are in denial<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve come back home to Cleveland. \u00a0I interviewed Athmo Bhandari in nearby Westlake, Ohio. \u00a0 He&#8217;s from India. \u00a0 He said the people of America are already at war, with themselves. \u00a0 That is, he said an extremely large portion <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=685\"><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-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}