{"id":903,"date":"2009-04-22T22:25:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=340"},"modified":"2009-04-22T22:25:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:25:24","slug":"42209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"4\/22\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Earth Day<\/em>. \u00a0 At the Recreation Center I took \u00a0our kids to in Cleveland today, there were a series of “Think Green<\/em>” factoids posted all over. \u00a0 One said that in a year we now use so many aluminum cans that they would stretch to the moon and back two and a half times!<\/em> Connecting the dots, we are doing things like strip mining in Third World countries to get the \u00a0bauxite ore \u00a0for aluminum. \u00a0 We are cutting forests for some of this mining. \u00a0 We are hauling \u00a0the \u00a0ore \u00a0on trucks and on freighters that are significantly contributing to global warming. \u00a0 We are making the ore into aluminum in plants \u00a0that are spewing even more carbon dioxide… \u00a0 For what? \u00a0 A lot of what is in these aluminum cans are non-nutritional beverages, things like beer and pop. \u00a0 So, in essence, our collective gluttony is creating a chain reaction of devastation around the planet. \u00a0 Knowing all this, wouldn’t drinking a can of pop be, oh I don’t know, maybe: a sin? \u00a0 All we need is some priests and ministers to put \u00a0down their<\/em> beer and pop and confront us on it. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Earth Day. \u00a0 At the Recreation Center I took \u00a0our kids to in Cleveland today, there were a series of “Think Green” factoids posted all over. \u00a0 One said that in a year we now use so many aluminum …<\/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-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}