{"id":970,"date":"2010-01-12T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T15:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-01-12T15:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T15:53:48","slug":"over-populated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Over populated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that if every person on earth was positioned side-by-side, they could all fit: on the island of Jamaica. \u00a0 Over populated? \u00a0 \u00a0 We have traveled the &#8220;back roads of America&#8221; for many years now looking for common sense takes on all the major issues of the day. \u00a0 In Keene, New Hampshire, Ray Rivest posed this question to me: \u00a0 &#8220;Do you think God would allow more people on the planet than it could sustain?&#8221; \u00a0 Good question. \u00a0 Perhaps a more salient question then is: \u00a0 &#8220;Are many of us overusing the resources God has given us to live here?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that if every person on earth was positioned side-by-side, they could all fit: on the island of Jamaica. \u00a0 Over populated? \u00a0 \u00a0 We have traveled the &#8220;back roads of America&#8221; for many years now looking for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=970\"><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-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}