{"id":773,"date":"2005-10-10T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2005\/10\/food-for-thought.html"},"modified":"2005-10-10T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T15:57:00","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2005\/10\/food-for-thought.html","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we could shrink the earth&#8217;s population to a village of precisely<br \/>100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, <br \/>it would  look something like the following:<\/p>\n<p>6 people would possess 59% of the entire world&#8217;s wealth and all 6<br \/>would be from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>80 would live in substandard housing <\/p>\n<p>50 would suffer from malnutrition<\/p>\n<p>If you woke up this morning with more health than illness&#8230;you are<br \/>more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.<\/p>\n<p>If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness <br \/>of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation,<br \/>you are ahead of 500 million people in the  world.<\/p>\n<p>If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof<br \/>overhead and a place to sleep&#8230;you are richer than 70% of this<br \/>world.<\/p>\n<p>If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a<br \/>dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world&#8217;s wealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we could shrink the earth&#8217;s population to a village of precisely100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following: 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world&#8217;s wealth and all 6would be from the United States. 80 would live in substandard housing 50 would&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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