{"id":1035,"date":"2010-06-09T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T21:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=474"},"modified":"2010-06-09T21:38:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T21:38:48","slug":"coal-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"coal country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have headed into Colorado for our <em>Rocky Mountain High Tour<\/em>. \u00a0 (Once again, originality is the hallmark of our campaign.) \u00a0 We have entered near the southeastern corner of Colorado, &#8220;coal country.&#8221; \u00a0 In fact, we got to Trinidad, Colorado, the day of a dedication ceremony for a new (and rather striking) sculpture depicting men in a mine working around a coal wagon. \u00a0 Like the discovery of oil in the Texas panhandle (see last entry), with the discovery of coal, people flocked to this area at \u00a0breakneck speed. \u00a0 Coal &#8220;boom towns&#8221; rising, falling and rising in the next spot&#8230; \u00a0 The day we arrived in Trinidad, the <em>Pueblo (CO) Cheiftan <\/em> \u00a0newspaper carried a story of the ongoing, catastrophic, Gulf oil spill. \u00a0 The oil was spreading like massive clouds and coming \u00a0ashore in Lousiana, Alabma, Florida&#8230; \u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t help but draw a parallel to the coal. \u00a0 Over the years, it&#8217;s been burned and burned and&#8230; sending up massive (invisible) clouds of carbon dioxide that \u00a0are coating the stratosphere and \u00a0are now &#8216;coming ashore&#8217; in the form of global warming: melting glaciers, rising sea levels, increased \u00a0droughts, super-charged hurricanes and typhoons&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 For a solid answer to our energy issues in this country, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_energy.html\">see<\/a> \u00a0our position paper on energy. \u00a0 <strong>Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 We made it to Walsenburg, Colorado, later this evening. \u00a0 The annual <em>Black Diamond Jubilee Festival <\/em>was going on. \u00a0 I went downtown to pass out campaign cards and listen to some country music. \u00a0 Upon arriving, the first song I heard was <em>Waltzing Through Texas With You<\/em>. \u00a0 I had to smile, thinking back on our just completed month-long tour of Texas. \u00a0 Although I doubt whether the &#8216;almost First Lady&#8217; would have seen it as &#8216;waltzing.&#8217; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have headed into Colorado for our Rocky Mountain High Tour. \u00a0 (Once again, originality is the hallmark of our campaign.) \u00a0 We have entered near the southeastern corner of Colorado, &#8220;coal country.&#8221; \u00a0 In fact, we got to Trinidad, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1035\"><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-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","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=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}