{"id":109,"date":"2004-08-26T12:28:53","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T12:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=103"},"modified":"2004-08-26T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T12:28:53","slug":"82504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"8\/25\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>&#8220;Average Joe&#8221; Buckey Blitz Tour cont. <\/em><\/strong>  Met with Fred Treaster in Blanchester, Ohio today.  Treaster, who is from nearby Midland, said he is a proponent of doing things naturally on the farm, as opposed to all the chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and so on.  He said in the &#8220;old days&#8221; people seemed a lot healthier because of this.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember people living on pills then, like they do now,&#8221;  he said.  A couple years ago, during an 88 county tour of Ohio, I told a reporter in Bellfountaine that &#8220;chemical weapons&#8221; on American farms (i.e. these pesticides, herbacides&#8230;) are creating, in effect, &#8216;chemical cocktails&#8217; in the body that are leading to high cancer rates.  Average Joe common-sense truism:  &#8220;If we want to end cancer, why don&#8217;t we stop using things that cause cancer?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Average Joe&#8221; Buckey Blitz Tour cont. Met with Fred Treaster in Blanchester, Ohio today. Treaster, who is from nearby Midland, said he is a proponent of doing things naturally on the farm, as opposed to all the chemical fertilizers, pesticides, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=109\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","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=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}