{"id":103,"date":"2004-08-21T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T16:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=97"},"modified":"2004-08-21T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2004-08-21T16:50:01","slug":"82104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"8\/21\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. <\/strong><\/em> (Saturday afternoon). Up the road from where we’re staying in Peebles, Ohio, the Powered Parachute Wing Association was having a fly-in. Frank Parman from London, Kentucky, told me these ultra-light airplanes — with a multi-colored parachute wing above the craft — cost, on average, $15,000. After watching a few of these take off and land, we took the kids up the road to the Davis Memorial Nature Preserve here with John Brockhoeft and his family. Upon arriving, three families from Wilmington, Ohio, simultaneously emerged from a nature walk. They asked about my platform, and I launched into a ‘stump speech’ of sort (with actual trees around, the whole thing). One of the family members was Steve Gonzales, who is the pastor of the relatively new Covenant Presbyterian Church (“Transforming People and Communities Through Christ.”) And I told the group that was there what we were about. That is, helping transform communities with many more ‘people-helping-people’ projects… “with the sense of community being more like it was in the old days,” I said. After passing out a few buttons, we embarked on a good hour and a half hike along the American Discovery Trail, which intersects with the Buckeye Trail. The Disocovery Tail, I learned, is the only coast to coast, non-motorized recreational trail in the country. According to a website about the Trail, it links communities, cities, parks and wilderness… allowing people to hike, bike or ride horses for an afternoon, or a cross country adventure. (We decided on the afternoon, our Joseph is only six.) But what a fascinating, nature filled afternoon it was seeing the ferns, white cedar trees, wild mushrooms… The kids had a wonderful time. And as I walked along, I couldn’t help but think what a much more educational, wholesome and cost effective way to spend the afternoon, then, say: flying $15,000 aircraft around. Especially when the $15,000 might be much better spent on little kids growing up in the inner cities here, or on kids starving in the Third World…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. (Saturday afternoon). Up the road from where we’re staying in Peebles, Ohio, the Powered Parachute Wing Association was having a fly-in. Frank Parman from London, Kentucky, told me these ultra-light airplanes — with a multi-colored …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","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=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}