{"id":1063,"date":"2010-08-16T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=503"},"modified":"2010-08-16T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T15:56:49","slug":"right-out-of-mayberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"right out of Mayberry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having ended our Roaming Wyoming Campaign Tour<\/em>, \u00a0 we have embarked on our Moseying in Montana Campaign Tour<\/em>. \u00a0 (Notice, not only the consonance in ‘Moseying in Montana,’ but the implied western theme as well. \u00a0 And I even do my own speech writing, too.) \u00a0 Anyway… \u00a0 Crossing into Montana on I-120, we stopped first in Belfry, Montana. \u00a0 Belfry High School’s mascot (What else?): \u00a0 a bat. \u00a0 In fact, there’s a big black one, wings extended (the whole thing), hanging ominously in front of the school. \u00a0 In Belfry, I also passed on a campaign card to Earl Black who runs the town’s one-pump service station. \u00a0 It’s a throwback to, say, Mayberry. \u00a0 The services station has a small bay, air for town kids’ bicycles and no snacks inside. \u00a0 Earl said this little “Mom & Pop” station is having trouble anymore competing with nearby truck stops, convenient store gas stations, and the like. \u00a0 I paid for the gas, then offered Earl an extra five dollars — as a donation to help keep him going. \u00a0 Note: \u00a0 We do that periodically at small town “Mom & Pop” places (service stations, hardware stores, barber shops…), because we think it was these small stores, these small family farms, that was once the backbone of America. \u00a0 And should be again. \u00a0 See our position <\/a>on this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having ended our Roaming Wyoming Campaign Tour, \u00a0 we have embarked on our Moseying in Montana Campaign Tour. \u00a0 (Notice, not only the consonance in ‘Moseying in Montana,’ but the implied western theme as well. \u00a0 And I even 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-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","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=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}