{"id":792,"date":"2008-03-11T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T00:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=227"},"modified":"2008-03-11T00:25:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T00:25:25","slug":"31008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"3\/10\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

We live in the inner city of Cleveland (intentionally) and volunteer at a Catholic Worker outreach to the poor here. \u00a0 Today we learned one of the homeless \u00a0men who goes to the outreach froze to death over the weekend. \u00a0 It wasn’t the cold that killed him, it was all of us who killed him. \u00a0 All of us living in the comfort of our central heating on three meals a day, while we recline in the easy chair watching, say, ESPN. \u00a0 Oh sure, we’ll throw a token (percentage-wise) at the poor now and then. \u00a0 But ask us to considerably<\/em> cut the heat back, lose a meal a day and not buy the television… so people without homes (here and in the Third World) can have at least the barest in shelter, food and medicine…? \u00a0 Well, you know what the answer to all that is in America. \u00a0 Just look around. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 When Jesus said he was going to Heavan to prepare mansions, do you think He was going to prepare them for the people in the easy chairs? \u00a0 Oh and by the way, the reason you’re not hearing this from your nearest pulpit? \u00a0 Because most of the priests, ministers, rabbis are, that’s right, sitting in central heating, after their third meal of the day, watching Sports Center. \u00a0 Note 2<\/strong>: \u00a0 As much as people want politicians who tell them what they want to hear, spiritually, do you think that’s, oh, the right paradigm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We live in the inner city of Cleveland (intentionally) and volunteer at a Catholic Worker outreach to the poor here. \u00a0 Today we learned one of the homeless \u00a0men who goes to the outreach froze to death over the weekend. …<\/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-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}