{"id":935,"date":"2009-08-07T17:51:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-08-07T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:51:45","slug":"373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"healthcare prevention, a protest and an ‘assassin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our tour up Route 1 continues… In Colonial Heights, Virginia, we talked with Ted Du Varney, 68, who has diabetes. \u00a0 (He actually looks like he’s in his early 50s.) \u00a0 He now charts everything he eats on a computerized graph and, well, everything he eats is quite healthy now. \u00a0 He said he’s turned the whole thing into a “game.” \u00a0 With all this talk about healthcare reform lately, shouldn’t this also include a significant amount of talk about: prevention?… \u00a0 Traveling further north, we stopped at a beach in Naragansett, Rhode Island, where our kids swam for the afternoon. \u00a0 The waves were, oh, a little bit bigger (and cleaner) than the ones we see back home at Lake Erie… We then headed further north, where we stood in solidarity with some people protesting abortion in front of a Planned Parenthood office in Biddeford, Maine… \u00a0 We concluded the Route 1 Tour in Biddeford and headed back west, stopping first in Haverhill, Massachussetts, where I talked at All Saints Church about abortion. \u00a0 I noted that we’ve crossed the 50 million abortion threshold mark in this country. \u00a0 By comparison, I said six million people were killed during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany… We then headed further west where we went to the YMCA in Hollyoke, Massachussetts. \u00a0 While lifting some weights, I over-heard a man in his early 20s talking about his “addiction.” \u00a0 He said he plays an “Assassin” video game for two to three hours every night. \u00a0 This, basically, is about “going around and killing people,” he said. \u00a0 What’s more, he said a new movie is coming out with the plot being about someone playing a similar game, but \u00a0they \u00a0actually control a real<\/em> assassin <\/em>who, basically, “goes around killing people.” \u00a0 Our culture \u00a0is getting \u00a0so absolutely nuts it’s unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our tour up Route 1 continues… In Colonial Heights, Virginia, we talked with Ted Du Varney, 68, who has diabetes. \u00a0 (He actually looks like he’s in his early 50s.) \u00a0 He now charts everything he eats on a computerized …<\/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-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}