{"id":971,"date":"2010-01-20T14:18:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=409"},"modified":"2010-01-20T14:18:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:18:37","slug":"haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haiti… \u00a0 Before the earthquake, Haiti was the second poorest country in the world. \u00a0 To quell persistent, acute hunger pains, a significant number of people there were eating patties made of mud, oil and flour. \u00a0 While this was slowly killing these people, apparently it was better than immediately dying of starvation. \u00a0 Meanwhile in America, significant numbers of people think nothing of spending all kinds of money on non-nutritional junk food and beverage (as opposed to taking the savings to send to Haiti, Uganda, Somalia…). \u00a0 We had the chance to help Haiti before. \u00a0 We have the chance to help Haiti now. It’s important we do that. \u00a0 Not only for them… but for our souls. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 While in Virginia on a campaign tour several years ago, a woman told me she’d just returned from a missions trip to Haiti. \u00a0 And what had particularly struck her was “…how stick thin almost everyone seemed to be there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haiti… \u00a0 Before the earthquake, Haiti was the second poorest country in the world. \u00a0 To quell persistent, acute hunger pains, a significant number of people there were eating patties made of mud, oil and flour. \u00a0 While this was …<\/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-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}