{"id":888,"date":"2009-03-05T00:36:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-03-05T00:36:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:36:04","slug":"324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"3\/4\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>New York Times<\/em> \u00a0 story this week noted President Barack Obama sent a secret letter to Russia&#8217;s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range nuclear weapons&#8230; \u00a0 As president, I would nix <em>all<\/em> \u00a0 plans to build missile defense systems, anywhere, I told the <em>Gainsville (TX) Daily Register<\/em> \u00a0 during a campaign tour. \u00a0 I mean, how does this square with the Gospel message? \u00a0 Thousands are dying of hunger everyday worldwide and millions of people don&#8217;t have clean drinking water. \u00a0 Yet we&#8217;re willing to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into even <em>more<\/em> \u00a0 protection for us in the face of so much potentially relievable human suffering. C&#8217;mmon. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I saw the following two bumper stickers on the same car yesterday: \u00a0 1) \u00a0 <em>I think. \u00a0 Therefore I am.<\/em> \u00a0 2) <em>I have no idea where I&#8217;m going<\/em>. \u00a0 Apparently this person&#8217;s not &#8216;thinking&#8217; enough. \u00a0 \u00a0 Just like some of us might not be &#8216;thinking&#8217; enough on this missile defense system thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Times \u00a0 story this week noted President Barack Obama sent a secret letter to Russia&#8217;s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=888\"><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-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}