{"id":91,"date":"2004-08-07T11:29:20","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T11:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=85"},"modified":"2004-08-07T11:29:20","modified_gmt":"2004-08-07T11:29:20","slug":"8504-cont-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"8\/5\/04 (cont.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont.  <\/strong><\/em> Tonight we met with Fran Clark who is the past president of the board for Womankind.  Fran explained Womankind is a rather unique Maternal and Prenatal Care Center that offers women with unexpected pregnancy, and their families, comprehensive care that includes long term counseling, education and support programs.  The organization, which is based in Garfield Heights, Ohio, is rather unique in that among it&#8217;s 100 volunteers, or so, there are a good number of  doctors, nurses, midwives&#8230; who provide a continuum of care for the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.  Other support services include:  childbirth classes, breast feeding information, nutrition counseling, legal assistance, financial counseling&#8230;  Note:  Fran Clark attends St. Joan of Arc Church in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.  And after a prayer service there tonight, my wife Liz came across a brochure for the &#8220;Elizabeth Ministry,&#8221; which involves assigning a woman &#8220;mentor&#8221; to a mother during child bearing years to help with parenting questions, to foster camaraderie and to help in other areas&#8230;  I couldn&#8217;t help but think that the Elizabeth Ministry, or similar programs, would be the next natural extension of the &#8220;Pro-Life&#8221; work continuum.   (The Elizabeth Ministry is based out of Allen, Texas.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Tonight we met with Fran Clark who is the past president of the board for Womankind. Fran explained Womankind is a rather unique Maternal and Prenatal Care Center that offers women with unexpected pregnancy, and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=91\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}