{"id":989,"date":"2010-03-11T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=427"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:44:12","slug":"they-walk-and-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"they walk, and walk…"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Open Door Community<\/em> in Atlanta, Georgia, there is a “foot clinic” every Wednesday evening. \u00a0 Volunteer medical students, nurses and the like, give homeless people massaging foot baths, trim toe nails, medicate sores, cut out corns… \u00a0 It’s a modern day version of the Biblical ‘washing of the feet.’ \u00a0 One of the biggest physical problems for the homeless are their feet. \u00a0 They walk a lot<\/em>. \u00a0 The day before, I’d talked to a homeless man who estimated he walked about 20 miles a day. \u00a0 (He’d just walked six miles one way from his camp near Turner Field for a meal at the Open Door.) \u00a0 And even when not en route to a specific place, the homeless are perpetually walking about as if they are en route to a specific place — because they don’t want to be perpetually rousted for loitering, and so on… \u00a0 At the foot clinic, I talked with Alice Tudor who has been volunteering here since 2006. \u00a0 (She now supervises here each Wednesday.) \u00a0 Ms. Tudor is a nurse who is originally from Romania. \u00a0 She said she volunteers simply because there is a need. \u00a0 In another part of the building each Wednesday, a volunteer doctor also attends to a myriad of other medical needs for those on the streets… \u00a0 And it is that helping spirit that our administration would attempt to tap into all across America when it comes to everyone<\/em> having access to adequate health care. \u00a0 In a talk at the Open Door<\/em> the day before, I said we’d researched the Marillac Clinic in Grand Junction, Colorado, during some of our cross country travels. \u00a0 The Marillac Clinic is a two-story hospital with volunteer doctors, volunteer nurses, volunteer townspeople who do janitorial, filing, intake work… \u00a0 And the clinic does local fund raising as well. \u00a0 The bottom line? \u00a0 If a resident in Grand Junction needs major surgery and doesn’t have health care insurance, they can get major surgery at the Marillac Clinic: for as little as five bucks. \u00a0 And not only does the person who needs the surgery benefit, but those volunteering benefit too, spiritually. \u00a0 Everyone wins. \u00a0 Note<\/strong>: \u00a0 For more on our health care platform, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia, there is a “foot clinic” every Wednesday evening. \u00a0 Volunteer medical students, nurses and the like, give homeless people massaging foot baths, trim toe nails, medicate sores, cut out corns… \u00a0 It’s …<\/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-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}