{"id":883,"date":"2009-02-10T23:15:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T23:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-02-10T23:15:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T23:15:41","slug":"21009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"2\/10\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently working on a book about the somewhat hardscrabble urban neighborhood we live in. \u00a0 The other night I was writing about coaching a Rec. Center soccer team. \u00a0 Driving one of the boys home after a game, he pointed to some toughs hanging out on a street corner near his house. \u00a0 &#8220;Them&#8217;s the drug dealers. \u00a0 They always trying to get me to try some&#8230;&#8221; he said. \u00a0 The boy is <em>eight-years-old<\/em>. \u00a0 I recently told the <em>Wooster Daily News<\/em> \u00a0 that in a saner world, no child would \u00a0be continually trying \u00a0to dodge hunger, drugs and bullets growing up, anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently working on a book about the somewhat hardscrabble urban neighborhood we live in. \u00a0 The other night I was writing about coaching a Rec. Center soccer team. \u00a0 Driving one of the boys home after a game, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=883\"><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-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","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=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}