{"id":889,"date":"2009-03-07T20:38:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T20:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=325"},"modified":"2009-03-07T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T20:38:43","slug":"3709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"3\/7\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> reported today that President Obama will be reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem cell research at a ceremony on Monday. \u00a0 According to the article, Obama said this \u00a0signals a \u00a0general return to &#8220;sound science.&#8221; \u00a0 And one proponent sited in the article said that this will return us to an era of &#8220;scientists making scientific decisions.&#8221; \u00a0 &#8230;The article calls these &#8220;human embryos.&#8221; \u00a0 The word &#8220;human&#8221; should be, oh, a <em>big<\/em> \u00a0 hint to us. \u00a0 Who out there hasn&#8217;t initially been: a \u00a0human embryo? \u00a0 <strong>Translated: \u00a0<\/strong> We&#8217;re killing people at the earliest stage of their life. \u00a0 I mean, it wouldn&#8217;t take an ethics professor, a scientists or even a president \u00a0who went to \u00a0 Harvard to figure this one out. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The national news carried a story today about a man in Cleveland who killed his new wife, her sister and three young children with a semi-automatic weapon. \u00a0 It happened on W. 89th St. just two miles west of us. \u00a0 Today I took our kids to a Recreation Center halfway between W. 89th St. and our place. \u00a0 While playing basketball, I noticed a 10-year-old kid standing nearby. \u00a0 He had a pronounced scar that ran from the corner of his eye all the way down to his chin. \u00a0 I asked what happened. \u00a0 He, rather matter of factedly, \u00a0said someone knifed him when he was five. \u00a0 \u00a0America&#8217;s \u00a0big cities are becoming such war zones. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reported today that President Obama will be reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem cell research at a ceremony on Monday. \u00a0 According to the article, Obama said this \u00a0signals a \u00a0general return <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=889\"><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-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}