{"id":939,"date":"2009-08-20T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T23:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=377"},"modified":"2009-08-20T23:14:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T23:14:18","slug":"377","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"a city on the edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a hardscrabble urban area of Cleveland, Ohio. \u00a0 And a couple days ago, I broke up a fight between a couple kids out in front of our local Rec. Center. Now kids fighting happens. \u00a0 But down here the fights seem more frequent and more intense. \u00a0 What&#8217;s more, people down here just generally seem more defensive, more edgy. \u00a0 And it&#8217;s understandable. \u00a0 That is, people in the urban areas of our country are surrounded with more homicides, more gangs, more drugs&#8230; \u00a0 It&#8217;s a continual pressure cooker. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I recently completed a book that, I believe, has an excellent blue print for how to bring significant change to our urban areas. \u00a0 It&#8217;s titled: <a title=\"joe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/new_books.htm#urban\">America&#8217;s Best Urban Neighborhood.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a hardscrabble urban area of Cleveland, Ohio. \u00a0 And a couple days ago, I broke up a fight between a couple kids out in front of our local Rec. Center. Now kids fighting happens. \u00a0 But down <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=939\"><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-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}