{"id":1062,"date":"2010-08-13T19:07:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=502"},"modified":"2010-08-13T19:07:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T19:07:17","slug":"and-they-work-and-work-and-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"and they work, and work, and work…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tying up loose ends from our Roaming Wyoming Campaign Tour<\/em>… \u00a0 In Cody (as in “Wild Bill Cody”) Wyoming, we attended an Old West Show<\/strong> in the downtown area. \u00a0 While the kids watched the fake gun fight (they do it every weekday night in the summer), Liz walked about in her cowgirl hat, and me in my Cleveland Brown’s cap. passing out campaign cards to the audience. \u00a0 (Given some of my stances, I’m surprised none of the gunfighters aimed at me.) \u00a0 …We then headed north to seven miles before the Montana border on Highway 120. \u00a0 There we toured the Mt. Carmel Boy’s Youth Ranch. \u00a0 Troubled youth (drug and alcohol problems, behavioral problems, et. al…) are sent here by their parents from all over the country. \u00a0 Volunteer “house parents” here, said they had to actually hire a “transporter,” (former DEA agent) to come into their house in Kansas late at night, handcuff their son and transport him here. \u00a0 \u00a0 He had become severely addicted to marijuana and was becoming a threat to his family, the community… \u00a0 After six months of clean living and hard “cowboy work” on the ranch, the son turned things around and is now attending college and doing quite well… \u00a0 Youth Program Director Lester Dumm said that after the youth arrive here, they are stripped of any vestiges of the negative culture they often come from. \u00a0 No earrings, no jewelry, no wearing pants too low, no rock\/rap music… Each is issued some cowboy jeans, cowboy shirts, cowboy boots… and a horse. \u00a0 They’re given a short time to learn how to ride (a couple hours), then sent out to the ranch to work, and work, and work… \u00a0 It’s a working ranch in the truest sense, and they learn early on, that they are valuable to the operation. \u00a0 Many of the youth have never had that type of responsibility, said Lester. \u00a0 And it becomes a key to their character development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tying up loose ends from our Roaming Wyoming Campaign Tour… \u00a0 In Cody (as in “Wild Bill Cody”) Wyoming, we attended an Old West Show in the downtown area. \u00a0 While the kids watched the fake gun fight (they do …<\/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-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","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=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}