{"id":817,"date":"2008-05-27T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-05-27T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:15:52","slug":"52708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"5\/27\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Phoenix<\/em> spacecraft just landed on Mar&#8217;s norther polar region. \u00a0 According to an <em>Associated Press<\/em> article, the <em>Phoenix <\/em>will be digging trenches in the soil there to get to ice that is believed to be buried inches down. \u00a0 The samples will then be analyzed for organic compounds, &#8220;&#8230;the chemical building blocks of life.&#8221; \u00a0 A thought: \u00a0 We are spending billions of dollars looking \u00a0at potential water sources on Mars; while literally billions of people on this planet don&#8217;t have access to clean drinking water. \u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t the billions of dollars be better spent on, oh I don&#8217;t know, <em>maybe helping more with \u00a0&#8220;life&#8221; in this planet!?<\/em> \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 During Campaign 2004, I told the <em>Wapokaneta News<\/em> in Wapokaneta, Ohio (home of astronaut Neil &#8212; &#8220;One large step for mankind&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; Armstrong), that as president, I would work hard to end the Space Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix spacecraft just landed on Mar&#8217;s norther polar region. \u00a0 According to an Associated Press article, the Phoenix will be digging trenches in the soil there to get to ice that is believed to be buried inches down. \u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=817\"><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-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}