{"id":1038,"date":"2010-06-13T02:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T02:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=477"},"modified":"2010-06-13T02:41:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T02:41:21","slug":"colorado-two-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"‘Colorado two-step’"},"content":{"rendered":"

We headed out of Huerfano County, Colorado, and up Rt. 69, a two-lane road that took us up another 2,000 feet into the mountains. \u00a0 It is one of the most beautiful drives we’ve experienced in the country… \u00a0 We stopped in the small town of Gardner where I put up an autographed flier on the community bulletin board in front of the post office. \u00a0 (In the battle against multi-million dollar advertising — sans the most recent Supreme Court ruling striking down campaign finance reform — \u00a0we believe well placed fliers is the grassroots \u00a0answer. \u00a0 Once again, we’re doing this all without paid political consultants.) \u00a0 Then it was on to Silver Cliff, Colorado (elevation 7,950 feet). \u00a0 It was Tuesday night and the “town band,” with a strong leaning toward country music, was playing at the Mining Company Restaurant downtown. \u00a0 Now when I say “town band,” anyone who can play an instrument and\/or sing, is welcome to join in each Tuesday night. \u00a0 And sure enough, every few songs someone else joined in, or had to leave, or… \u00a0 And I gotta say, no matter what the combination (for the most part), these guys not only sounded good, they had people up dancing –primarily the \u00a0‘Colorado two-step’ — and everything. Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I mention (often) putting up campaign fliers on bulletin boards around towns, and the like, as we travel. \u00a0 And we’re asking our supporters to do the same in their towns. \u00a0 To down load our flier<\/a> \u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We headed out of Huerfano County, Colorado, and up Rt. 69, a two-lane road that took us up another 2,000 feet into the mountains. \u00a0 It is one of the most beautiful drives we’ve experienced in the country… \u00a0 We …<\/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-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","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=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}