{"id":748,"date":"2007-11-22T02:07:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T02:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=183"},"modified":"2007-11-22T02:07:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T02:07:14","slug":"112007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"11\/20\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are moving into the Christmas season and many people in America will spend all kinds of time and money shopping for Christmas presents for people who, in most cases, already have more<\/em> than enough. \u00a0 Meanwhile, famine sweeps through Somolia, Darfur… with scores of starving little children pleading through hollow eyes for a mere sip of milk. \u00a0 Then there are the million homeless people in Bengladesh in the aftermath of last week’s catastrophic typhoon, who are \u00a0sleeping in the mud, or \u00a0desperately looking for their loved ones, or desperately looking for food… \u00a0 And we’re headed for the Mall while singing stuff like Silent Night<\/em> or The First Noel<\/em>. \u00a0 Are we (spiritually) nuts? \u00a0 Do we think that the child who was born on Christmas Day and went on to say all<\/em> this stuff about helping the poor, would think heading to the Mall \u00a0— in the midst of \u00a0so much potentially relievable human suffering out there — \u00a0would be a good idea? \u00a0 Hardly. \u00a0 Let’s give our suburban children \u00a0only one \u00a0gift this year. \u00a0 Let’s give them a gift with \u00a0eternal ramifications. \u00a0 Let’s give <\/em>them an example<\/em> of how to \u00a0really help others — \u00a0until it hurts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are moving into the Christmas season and many people in America will spend all kinds of time and money shopping for Christmas presents for people who, in most cases, already have more than enough. \u00a0 Meanwhile, famine sweeps through …<\/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-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}