{"id":1023,"date":"2010-05-14T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=461"},"modified":"2010-05-14T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:59:23","slug":"sunflower-capitol-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"sunflower capitol of Texas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Serenity Pond, we headed north last week on Rte 6, the <em>Texas-Brazo Trail<\/em>. \u00a0 \u00a0 Our first stop was in Hearne (the &#8220;Sunflower Capitol of Texas&#8221;), where I passed out fliers and did an interview with the <em>Hearne Democrat<\/em> \u00a0 newspaper. \u00a0 I said my wife Liz and I were running as &#8220;concerned parents from the Midwest.&#8221; \u00a0 Between the ongoing wars, metropolitan violence and drugs, sex on television&#8230; call me &#8220;old fashion,&#8221; but it&#8217;s just not a sane environment to be raising children in anymore&#8230; \u00a0 We then stopped in the towns of Calvert and Marlin, continuing to campaign. \u00a0 I told the owner of the <em>Marlin Cafe<\/em> \u00a0 that I believed there needs to be other voices out here on the campaign trail. \u00a0 Then it was on to Waco&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Serenity Pond, we headed north last week on Rte 6, the Texas-Brazo Trail. \u00a0 \u00a0 Our first stop was in Hearne (the &#8220;Sunflower Capitol of Texas&#8221;), where I passed out fliers and did an interview with the Hearne Democrat <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1023\"><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-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","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=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}