{"id":732,"date":"2007-10-26T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=167"},"modified":"2007-10-26T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T15:28:19","slug":"102407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"10\/24\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to my wife Liz’s “Mum,” Dawn, who is here from New Zealand for a visit. \u00a0 Back home, Dawn and her husband Stuart, house share with one of their daughter’s families. \u00a0 Our platform calls for a considerable amount of house sharing, I told the LaCross Tribune<\/em> in Wisconsin during one of our recent tours. \u00a0 It only makes sense, common sense. \u00a0 That is, if we want to reverse global warming (and the environmental cancer of urban sprawl), we \u00a0should double up in homes to share heated space, to share lighted rooms, to share furniture and appliances (which all take fossil fuels to make). \u00a0 What’s more, we would halve expenses, freeing up all kinds of money for carbon offset projects, humanitarian aid programs to the Third World, etc. \u00a0 The only thing keeping most of us from doing this in America is: our selfishness<\/em> around space and our fear of intimacy and community building with others. \u00a0 Granted, these can be big things. \u00a0 However: GET OVER IT AMERICA<\/em><\/strong> — so our children will have a world to grow up in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking to my wife Liz’s “Mum,” Dawn, who is here from New Zealand for a visit. \u00a0 Back home, Dawn and her husband Stuart, house share with one of their daughter’s families. \u00a0 Our platform calls for a …<\/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-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}