{"id":805,"date":"2008-04-22T13:35:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-04-22T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T13:35:18","slug":"42208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"4\/22\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buckeye Back Roads Tour cont.:<\/strong> I gave a talk at St. George Church in Lisbon, Ohio, yesterday. I said the rising price of wheat, rice, etc., is devastating to many in the Third World. A <em>NY Times<\/em> \u00a0 article (mentioned in the last blog entry) reports from a sprawling slum in Haiti, where one woman offered one of her five young children to a stranger. &#8220;Take one,&#8221; she said, cradiling a listless baby and motioning toward four rail-thin toddlers, none of whom had eaten that day. &#8220;You pick. Just feed them.&#8221; &#8230;I then said to the St. George congregation: &#8220;Air conditioning, unnecessary driving, too many clothes, dinners at Bob Evans&#8230; while this mother in Haiti has to give up her children to strangers, to starvation?&#8221; &#8230;And at the Last Judgement they will say: &#8220;But Lord, when did we see you hungry?&#8221; <strong>Note:<\/strong> I just did an interview for Ken Leanard&#8217;s blog \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/1truebeliever.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/18\/\">http:\/\/1truebeliever.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/18\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckeye Back Roads Tour cont.: I gave a talk at St. George Church in Lisbon, Ohio, yesterday. I said the rising price of wheat, rice, etc., is devastating to many in the Third World. A NY Times \u00a0 article (mentioned <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=805\"><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-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}