{"id":766,"date":"2008-01-06T00:34:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T00:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=201"},"modified":"2008-01-06T00:34:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T00:34:03","slug":"1508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"1\/5\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

We played “Social Justice Football” with the kids at the Catholic Worker House this week on a \u00a0somewhat soggy field. \u00a0 In Social Justice Football, everybody<\/em> gets a chance to run, pass, catch… \u00a0 And although the score was 21 to 14, in Social Justice Football that really doesn’t matter. \u00a0 (Except to the team that won and the team that lost, of course. \u00a0 Ok, so I’m not a purest.) \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 During our Campaign 2000 travels, we came across “Itch Field” (a lot of misquitoes) \u00a0in tiny Arthur, Illinois. \u00a0 Some Amish guys had cut this ball diamond out of a corn field, ala Field of Dreams<\/em>. \u00a0 I was told there was competition at “the Itch,” but not too<\/em> much competition, during the games. \u00a0 As an example, a guy who was developmentally disabled played first base next to another infielder who could have been on a high school All Star team. \u00a0 If only the society at large \u00a0mirrored this paradigm more, huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We played “Social Justice Football” with the kids at the Catholic Worker House this week on a \u00a0somewhat soggy field. \u00a0 In Social Justice Football, everybody gets a chance to run, pass, catch… \u00a0 And although the score was 21 …<\/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-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}