{"id":1029,"date":"2010-05-27T20:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=467"},"modified":"2010-05-27T20:32:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:32:38","slug":"wind-turbines-and-sportmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"wind turbines and sportmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"

While in Abilene, I was interviewed by Bob Bartlett at NBC News<\/em> \u00a0 here. \u00a0 Then we traveled to Sweetwater, Texas, where I passed out fliers downtown and was interviewed by the Sweetwater Reporter<\/em> newspaper. \u00a0 The previous Sunday, the newspaper had done an extensive piece on all the wind turbines on the Texas plains here. \u00a0 It noted that Nolan County was home of the five largest wind turbine projects in the world, outside of China. \u00a0 There are 150 wind farms in the Nolan County area… \u00a0 Coming out of Sweetwater, we found ourselves in a virtual sea of big, white twirling turbines. \u00a0 In this corridor, the wind blows consistantly, as it does in parts of Wyoming, Montana… \u00a0 Our administration would offer subsidies to encourage the building of similar wind farms in many locations nationwide. \u00a0 Heading north, we stopped in Post, Texas, then it was on to Lubbock… \u00a0 In Lubbock, we met Joe Mata, 37, who could be playing basketball in the European League, he’s that <\/em>good. \u00a0 He plays in “three on three” tournaments around the state and has won a good number of trophies. \u00a0 He invited Sarah, Joseph and I to play with a group of guys he plays ball with every Friday. \u00a0 The game started with a prayer, there was no foul language (Except from our Joseph, who picked up a few four letter words at Cleveland’s Rec. Center. \u00a0 I benched him with a “technical.”), and there were no fights. \u00a0 Just good, clean competition. \u00a0 Call me “old school,” but isn’t that how it should be? \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 As I was typing this in a library in Amarillo, I looked up to see the following on a guy’s t-shirt: \u00a0 \u00a0“One man practicing good sportsmanship is far better than 50 others preaching it.” \u00a0 — Knute Rockne.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While in Abilene, I was interviewed by Bob Bartlett at NBC News \u00a0 here. \u00a0 Then we traveled to Sweetwater, Texas, where I passed out fliers downtown and was interviewed by the Sweetwater Reporter newspaper. \u00a0 The previous Sunday, the …<\/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-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","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=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}