{"id":1083,"date":"2010-09-16T00:14:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T00:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=523"},"modified":"2010-09-16T00:14:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T00:14:02","slug":"barber-poles-sips-and-a-round-a-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"barber poles, &#8220;Sips&#8221; and a round-a-bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were in rural Knox County, Ohio, working on a friend&#8217;s farm here for the day. \u00a0 A tremendous wind shear had just come through and \u00a0our family \u00a0spent the morning helping clear trees from the fence line&#8230; \u00a0 In the afternoon, I went into Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where I parked our campaign vehicle on a high visibility area \u00a0on the \u00a0town round-a-bout. \u00a0 I passed out campaign flyers on the square, put one up on the bulletin board at the post office, then it was off to a nearby barber shop (with an old-fashion swirling barber pole, the whole thing) to pass out yet more cards. \u00a0 Walking out of the barber shop, I noticed a rather large group of employees were getting out for the day at the three-story bank across the street. \u00a0 On the sidewalk outside the building, I passed out \u00a0a good number of \u00a0cards to them. \u00a0 Then it was off to <strong>Sips Coffee Shop<\/strong> (great name, huh) where the owner said he&#8217;d put some of the cards on his display table. \u00a0 It&#8217;s actually a rather politically oriented place, various Mt. Vernon councilmembers come here Saturday mornings to answer citizen questions, etc. \u00a0 From Sips, it was off to <strong>Joey&#8217;s Diner<\/strong> where I passed out some more cards. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 We&#8217;re asking supporters to pass out campaign flyers in their towns, maybe get some creative <strong>average Joe for U.S. president<\/strong> signage for their vehicles &#8212; and park these vehicles in high visibility areas as well. \u00a0 It&#8217;s our answer to the big, multi-million dollar campaigns. \u00a0 And yes once again, we&#8217;re doing this all without paid political consultants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were in rural Knox County, Ohio, working on a friend&#8217;s farm here for the day. \u00a0 A tremendous wind shear had just come through and \u00a0our family \u00a0spent the morning helping clear trees from the fence line&#8230; \u00a0 In <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1083\"><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-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","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=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}