{"id":759,"date":"2007-12-15T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=194"},"modified":"2007-12-15T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T16:22:46","slug":"121507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"12\/15\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some interior house painting at a place on 38th St. here on and off the past couple weeks. \u00a0 The people who own the place are extremely peace and social justice oriented. \u00a0 While many homeowners have things like generic paintings on their walls, these people \u00a0display things like: a <em>United Farm Workers<\/em> banner. \u00a0 A couple years ago, we did a tour of California looking at migrant farm worker issues, both past and present. \u00a0 This tour, among other things, inspired me to write a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/columns\/child_dying.html\">column <\/a>about the experience. \u00a0 For many of these farm workers, it is a torturous sun-up to sun-down existence, with little pay, poor working conditions, poor housing&#8230; \u00a0 I told \u00a0a reporter in Lodi, California, \u00a0that our administration would work stridently to change this. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Speaking of torture&#8230; The <em>NY Times<\/em> carried a piece yesterday explaining that &#8220;water boarding&#8221; is a technique where water is poured over a prisoner&#8217;s mouth and nose to produce a feeling of suffocation. \u00a0 According to the article, the Justice Department \u00a0 continues to insist water boarding is not torture. \u00a0 This can only beg the question: \u00a0 <em>Are we nuts?<\/em> \u00a0 It wouldn&#8217;t take, say, a Notre Dame ethics professor to figure this one out. \u00a0 <em>C&#8217;mmon!<\/em> \u00a0 Our administration would hold strictly to the Geneva Convention in regard to: not torturing anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some interior house painting at a place on 38th St. here on and off the past couple weeks. \u00a0 The people who own the place are extremely peace and social justice oriented. \u00a0 While many homeowners have <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=759\"><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-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}