{"id":804,"date":"2008-04-21T14:32:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T14:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=239"},"modified":"2008-04-21T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T14:32:50","slug":"42108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"4\/21\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

We launched on yet another tour Saturday. \u00a0 We did a “round table” discussion at the Friends Roastery Coffee Shop<\/em> in Salem, Ohio, that day. \u00a0 Before the discussion, I told reporter Mary Ann Greier about a New York Times<\/em> article I’d just read about the rising price of wheat and rice throughout the Third World nations. \u00a0 In a vignette from the country of Haitti, the times noted that three-quarters of the populaiton earns less than $2 a day and the one business that is booming amidst the intense, sweeping hunger that has taken hold in that country is the selling of “patties made of mud, \u00a0oil and sugar.” \u00a0 Although nutritionally terrible, Olwich Louis Jeune said he is eating them because: \u00a0 “It makes your stomach quiet down.” \u00a0 I told Ms. Greier that our administration would do everything imaginable to try to inspire Americans to cut back dramatically on their lifestyles, so the destitute of the world can have at least the basics in nutritional foods — \u00a0dirt not being one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We launched on yet another tour Saturday. \u00a0 We did a “round table” discussion at the Friends Roastery Coffee Shop in Salem, Ohio, that day. \u00a0 Before the discussion, I told reporter Mary Ann Greier about a New York Times …<\/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-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}