{"id":686,"date":"2007-08-25T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=119"},"modified":"2007-08-25T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:19:35","slug":"82207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"8\/22\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a Bible Study in Avon Lake, Ohio. \u00a0 The readings revolved around the prophet Isaiah telling the Isrealites that they were so concerned with shiny &#8220;anklets&#8230; pendants&#8230; and veils&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; that they&#8217;d forgotten about the poor. \u00a0 And as a result, it wasn&#8217;t going to bode well for these advantaged Isrealites. \u00a0 After the reading, I was introduced to the group as a presidential candidate. \u00a0 I said I had a strong social justice platform. \u00a0 And I explained that \u00a0in the year 2007, &#8220;anklets, pendants and veils&#8221; could easily be substituted for nice suburban homes, luxury cars and air conditioning &#8212; while two-thirds of the Third World live in stark, abject poverty. \u00a0 Avon Lake, Ohio, is an upscale Cleveland suburb. \u00a0 And my comment sparked, oh, a bit of a debate. \u00a0 On the optomistic side, these kinds of \u00a0encounters are \u00a0getting me ready for the <em>National Debates<\/em> next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a Bible Study in Avon Lake, Ohio. \u00a0 The readings revolved around the prophet Isaiah telling the Isrealites that they were so concerned with shiny &#8220;anklets&#8230; pendants&#8230; and veils&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; that they&#8217;d forgotten about the poor. \u00a0 And <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=686\"><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-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}