{"id":902,"date":"2009-04-19T02:14:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T02:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-04-19T02:14:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T02:14:50","slug":"41809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"4\/18\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to National Geographic<\/em>, Haiti is “dirt poor.” \u00a0 That is, hunger is so<\/em> bad for many there now that they have taken to eating cakes made of clay, salt and shortening. \u00a0 Even though people realize these are terrible for their systems, the cakes “quell the hunger pangs” in the short term… As I read this, I couldn’t help thinking about all us “people of faith” who \u00a0each day go to \u00a0the corner store for pop, chips, cookies… and all sorts of other totally<\/em> non-nutritional junk food in the face of such potentially relievable human suffering — and think nothing of it!<\/em> \u00a0 What’s more, we then ask God to “bless our \u00a0 nation.” \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Mother Theresa once said the United States of America \u00a0was the “most spiritually poor country” she came across in all her travels. \u00a0 Trouble is, we’ve been so blinded by each of the seven deadly sins, like for instance: gluttony, that we can’t see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to National Geographic, Haiti is “dirt poor.” \u00a0 That is, hunger is so bad for many there now that they have taken to eating cakes made of clay, salt and shortening. \u00a0 Even though people realize these are terrible …<\/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-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","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=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}