{"id":878,"date":"2009-01-29T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=314"},"modified":"2009-01-29T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:04:14","slug":"12809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"1\/28\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking with a Cleveland city school teacher yesterday who is also quite active doing social justice work \u00a0with the Catholic Workers here. \u00a0 She said farmers will continue to grow coca plants in, say, \u00a0Columbia “as long as their is money to be made.” \u00a0 Her point being that as long as people stay impoverished, in their desperation they will turn to whatever they can to feed their children and themselves. \u00a0 Common sense. \u00a0 Our administration’s ‘War on Drugs’ would, among other things, \u00a0be a tremendously stepped up humanitarian aid outpouring into the Third World. \u00a0 Speaking of war… \u00a0 Bumper sticker sighting: \u00a0 “War doesn’t decide who’s right. \u00a0 Just who’s left.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking with a Cleveland city school teacher yesterday who is also quite active doing social justice work \u00a0with the Catholic Workers here. \u00a0 She said farmers will continue to grow coca plants in, say, \u00a0Columbia “as long as …<\/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-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}