{"id":728,"date":"2007-10-19T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-10-19T19:18:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:18:31","slug":"101907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"10\/19\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>average JoeOhio Tour <em>still<\/em> cont.:<\/strong> \u00a0 We did a whislte-stop in downtown Lancaster, Ohio, today. \u00a0 Mayor David Smith stopped by to say hello. \u00a0 Nice guy. \u00a0 A reporter from the <em>Lancaster Eagle-Gazette<\/em> also came by for an interview. \u00a0 She asked me about my stances. \u00a0 I said the day before, I talked with Gloria Knott in Cambridge, Ohio. \u00a0 She had been on two medical mission trips to Haitti and said the people there, including the children, were horrendously malnourished (&#8220;&#8230;a piece of sugar cane may be all a child has to eat for a day there,&#8221; she said). \u00a0 What&#8217;s more, many children spend the entire day just looking for small amounts of clean water and many sleep in cinder block structures at night with no roofs and partial walls&#8230; I told the reporter from the <em>Lancaster Eagle<\/em> that it is &#8220;unconscienable&#8221; that we have a 33% \u00a0obesity problem in \u00a0America in the face of this poverty. \u00a0 It is just as inconscienable that we &#8216;gorge&#8217; ourselves on excessive entertainment, nice cars, quite comfortable homes&#8230; while these little kids in the Third World starve. \u00a0 Are we nuts? \u00a0 Do we not think we&#8217;re going to have to answer for this at Judgement? \u00a0 And the only reason we&#8217;re not hearing this from the pulpits of America (for the most part) is because our so-called spiritual leaders (priests, ministers, etc.) are gorging <em>themselves<\/em> on excessive entertainment, nice cars, comfortable rectories and homes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>average JoeOhio Tour still cont.: \u00a0 We did a whislte-stop in downtown Lancaster, Ohio, today. \u00a0 Mayor David Smith stopped by to say hello. \u00a0 Nice guy. \u00a0 A reporter from the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette also came by for an interview. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=728\"><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-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}