{"id":1042,"date":"2010-06-23T20:08:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=481"},"modified":"2010-06-23T20:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:08:56","slug":"on-the-ground-strategy-and-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;on the ground strategy&#8217; and socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <em>&#8216;on the ground&#8217;<\/em> \u00a0 campaign strategy continues&#8230; \u00a0 In the face of million dollar political advertising, we&#8217;re currently \u00a0going with: &#8220;average Joe&#8221; fliers. \u00a0 Well, it could work&#8230; \u00a0 In Wheat Ridge, Colorado, I put up a flier on a bulletin board in King Sooper Grocery &#8212; right below a season schedule for the <em>Mile High Grizzlies<\/em> \u00a0 semi-pro football team. \u00a0 \u00a0(Bulletin board placement is \u00a0<em>everything<\/em>.) \u00a0 We then drove into downtown Arvada, Colorado, where I put a flier up on the community bulletin board on the square in the &#8216;Old Town&#8217; area, then I walked about passing out more campaign literature&#8230; \u00a0 Then if was off to North Geffco Park in Arvada, where our Jonathan, 7, played in the sand at the playground with a group of kids and I passed out yet \u00a0more campaign literature to some of the parents&#8230; \u00a0Afterward we went to \u00a0<em>Shannon&#8217;s Thrift Store<\/em> \u00a0 where the boys got a \u00a0few used \u00a0baseballs and I \u00a0bought a couple second-hand pairs of socks. \u00a0 (Have I mentioned it&#8217;s a low budget campaign?) \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Last evening at the Arvada YMCA, the coach of one of the teams there let our kids join in on a practice scrimmage. \u00a0 Liz and I \u00a0ran the scoreboard clock. \u00a0 We all had an absolutely great time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our &#8216;on the ground&#8217; \u00a0 campaign strategy continues&#8230; \u00a0 In the face of million dollar political advertising, we&#8217;re currently \u00a0going with: &#8220;average Joe&#8221; fliers. \u00a0 Well, it could work&#8230; \u00a0 In Wheat Ridge, Colorado, I put up a flier on <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1042\"><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-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","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=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}