{"id":886,"date":"2009-02-27T00:35:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=322"},"modified":"2009-02-27T00:35:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T00:35:25","slug":"22609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"2\/26\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had the Republicans weigh in after Mr. Obama&#8217;s speech to Congress Tuesday. \u00a0 Now it&#8217;s the &#8220;average Joe&#8221; response: \u00a0 Mr. Obama ended his speech with: &#8220;God bless America.&#8221; \u00a0 Do we think God is going to bless a nation that is dismembering 4,000 babies in their mothers&#8217; wombs every day? \u00a0 Do we think God is going to bless a nation where a significant number of people are living in suburban comfort, while billions of people worldwide \u00a0are either homeless or living in Third World slums? \u00a0 Do we think God is going to bless a nation where 66% of it&#8217;s occupants are overweight (33% obese), while billions of people are tremendously malnourished and 25,000 people starve to death daily? \u00a0 Who are we kidding, but ourselves? \u00a0 <em>This<\/em> \u00a0 is what should have been said Tuesday night to that room full of people dressed in their $300 suits. \u00a0 Incidentally, $300 could feed a small Third World village for a month. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The road to heaven is narrow and definitely not paved with opinion polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the Republicans weigh in after Mr. Obama&#8217;s speech to Congress Tuesday. \u00a0 Now it&#8217;s the &#8220;average Joe&#8221; response: \u00a0 Mr. Obama ended his speech with: &#8220;God bless America.&#8221; \u00a0 Do we think God is going to bless a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=886\"><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-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}