{"id":809,"date":"2008-05-03T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T15:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=244"},"modified":"2008-05-03T15:59:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T15:59:13","slug":"5308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"5\/3\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a tour last week, I gave a “Politics in the Backyard<\/em>” talk in Stuebenville, Ohio. \u00a0 Prior to the talk, a couple friends of ours, Sadi and Abi Hoyt from Scio, Ohio, played classical harp. \u00a0 It sounded like something, well, right out of Heaven. \u00a0 And to get<\/em> \u00a0 to Heaven, I said during the talk, it is my belief Americans will have to considerably step up their sacrifice and charitable giving. \u00a0 I noted that, in a recent talk to the UN, Pope Benedict said we must end inequitablility between countries. \u00a0 I then read an excerpt from a New York Times<\/em> article that said a woman in Haiti was offering her children to strangers — so they didn’t have to starve to death. \u00a0 Meanwhile, \u00a0many Americans go on buying cars, over-stocking their refrigerators, using air conditioning, going on trips…. Equitable? \u00a0 Hardly. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I had to laugh. \u00a0 This week the media has been explaining how Clinton and Obama are posturing to appeal more to middle class voters. \u00a0 Meanwhile in Cleveland, Ohio, I’ve been painting the interior of a house up the street this week. \u00a0 I don’t know, maybe I should be bowling too. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During a tour last week, I gave a “Politics in the Backyard” talk in Stuebenville, Ohio. \u00a0 Prior to the talk, a couple friends of ours, Sadi and Abi Hoyt from Scio, Ohio, played classical harp. \u00a0 It sounded like …<\/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-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}