{"id":51,"date":"2013-03-03T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T21:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2013-03-03T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T21:52:04","slug":"troubling-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/03\/troubling-statistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubling statistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend posted these figures on Facebook today.<br \/>\nThe world spent $1735 Billion on war in 2012.\u00a0 It would take $135 Billion to TOTALLY ERADICATE poverty.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s less than a tithe. We could do so much more to change the world by defeating poverty. Do you think war would be less necessary if there were no longer poverty or is it in fact war that causes (or at least maintains) most of the poverty in the world?\u00a0\u00a0 Food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend posted these figures on Facebook today. The world spent $1735 Billion on war in 2012.\u00a0 It would take $135 Billion to TOTALLY ERADICATE poverty. That&#8217;s less than a tithe. We could do so much more to change the world by defeating poverty. Do you think war would be less necessary if there were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,12,11],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-poverty","tag-spending","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3d89p-P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}