{"id":736,"date":"2007-11-02T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-11-02T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T15:46:42","slug":"11107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"11\/1\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guy who’s been living on the streets of Cleveland on and off for years, stopped by for coffee at our place the other night. \u00a0 He talked about families living in a nearby housing project. \u00a0 “They walk out of the doors not knowing whether they’re going to be dodging bullets, or not.” \u00a0 he lamented. \u00a0 Cleveland’s homicide rate has skyrocketed this year. \u00a0 \u00a0Cleveland is currently the poorest metropolitan area in the country. \u00a0 The paradigm here is about calling for more police, more Citizen Patrols… \u00a0 Yet the real, <\/em>long-term answer is for some of the advantaged in suburban and small town America to roll up their sleeves and move back into these decaying urban centers to live side-by-side with the disadvantaged. Not for ‘gentrification’ purposes, which merely pushes the poor out. \u00a0 But rather to bring a heightened \u00a0measure of social justice, camaradarie and a community garden, or two. Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 As an example of how an aspect of this would work…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A guy who’s been living on the streets of Cleveland on and off for years, stopped by for coffee at our place the other night. \u00a0 He talked about families living in a nearby housing project. \u00a0 “They walk out …<\/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-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}