{"id":764,"date":"2008-01-01T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T00:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-01-01T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T00:18:37","slug":"123107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"12\/31\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Year’s eve…<\/strong> This week our family participated in a “Books to Prisoners” event at C-Space in Cleveland. \u00a0 C-Space has a pretty extensive library of donated books. \u00a0 Prisoners, in turn, write \u00a0specifiying certain topics they’re interested in. \u00a0 \u00a0 And once every few months, volunteers converge to help match the requests with books on hand. \u00a0 The project is colloquially referred to as: Book ’em…<\/em> \u00a0 Tim Musser, a friend of ours and a passionate peace activist, helped out at the C-Space event. \u00a0 A couple weeks earlier, Tim had given me the book The Horrors We Bless (Rethinking the Just-War Legacy).<\/em> \u00a0 At one point, author Daniel Maguire writes about global warming and how this crisis, ultimately, could lead to a whole<\/em> lot more world peace. \u00a0 “Since global warming threatens everyone, there is new reason for an international ecumenism. \u00a0 Shared fear can make friends of former foes,” Maguire writes. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 In prefacing the latter, Maguire uses the Ministry of Tourism on the Maldive Islands (just a couple feet above sea level) to illustrate how imminent the threat of global warming is: \u00a0 “Come and see us — while we’re still here,”<\/em> \u00a0says one Maldive tourism brochure. \u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 Global Warming; genocide in Darfur; crisis in Pakistan; ongoing carnage in Iraq; scores of children starving in Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria; increasing nuclear proliferation… \u00a0It would seem to me \u00a0it’s time for some significant global, and \u00a0ecumenical, New Year’s resolutions this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Year’s eve… This week our family participated in a “Books to Prisoners” event at C-Space in Cleveland. \u00a0 C-Space has a pretty extensive library of donated books. \u00a0 Prisoners, in turn, write \u00a0specifiying certain topics they’re interested in. \u00a0 …<\/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-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}