{"id":811,"date":"2008-05-07T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T22:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-05-07T22:59:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T22:59:14","slug":"5407-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"5\/7\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During some talks at St. Ignatius High School Government classes in Cleveland yesterday (see last entry), I posed a scenario. \u00a0 I said scientists are now saying that global warming is already causing drought and famine in some of the more arid countries. \u00a0 So there is a good possibility that as a result of our fossil-fuel-addicted (read: gluttonous) American lifestyles, children are starving to death in Uganda, Nigeria, the Sudan&#8230; \u00a0right <em>now<\/em>. \u00a0 &#8220;So what does that make us?&#8221; \u00a0 I asked the class. \u00a0 &#8220;Murderers,&#8221; a student replied. \u00a0 I nodded. \u00a0 And then I added that while we aren&#8217;t being prosecuted for this, when we&#8217;re standing at Judgement with God &#8212; \u00a0will He bring \u00a0it up? \u00a0 And boy, when you&#8217;re talkin&#8217; eternity &#8212; \u00a0what&#8217;s driving <em>way<\/em> \u00a0 less, cutting the thermostat <em>way<\/em> \u00a0 back in the winter, turning off the air-conditioning altogether? \u00a0 I mean, you think it will be hot here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During some talks at St. Ignatius High School Government classes in Cleveland yesterday (see last entry), I posed a scenario. \u00a0 I said scientists are now saying that global warming is already causing drought and famine in some of the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=811\"><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-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}