{"id":1110,"date":"2010-11-02T16:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=550"},"modified":"2010-11-02T16:12:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:12:42","slug":"go-hokies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"Go Hokies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Our <em>Virginia<\/em> <em>Common Wealth Tour<\/em> continues&#8230; \u00a0 We headed out of Verona and \u00a0on to rural Buchanan, Virginia. \u00a0 We stopped at the <em>Buchanan Quick Stop<\/em> \u00a0 (that didn&#8217;t seem all that <em>quick <\/em>). \u00a0 A slow country music song was playing in the background of the store and some older African Americans were milling about out front. \u00a0 I passed out some campaign cards to them and noticed a rather large store marquee over one of their shoulders. \u00a0 It was out by the road. \u00a0 It didn&#8217;t \u00a0read <strong>2 Liter Coke 99 cents<\/strong>, or <strong>2 Gatorades for $3<\/strong>. \u00a0 It simply read:<strong> Go Hokies! \u00a0 <\/strong>They take their college football seriously here. \u00a0 And this is something else we should be taking seriously&#8230; <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The Obama administration has called for millions of dollars in federally guaranteed loans to build a whole new generation of nuclear power plants here. \u00a0 According to <em>Z Magazine<\/em>, \u00a0 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has admitted that 27 of the nation&#8217;s nuclear power plants have had radioactive tritium leaks. \u00a0 These leaks, like the one at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, can get into the \u00a0groundwater, then rivers, then lakes, then us&#8230; \u00a0 Nuclear \u00a0power has the potential to be: <em>just too darn dangerous!<\/em> \u00a0 I mean, would you want your kid drinking water with tritium in it? \u00a0 I don&#8217;t even think it&#8217;s too great that they&#8217;re drinking Coke, even at 99 cents for 2 liters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Our Virginia Common Wealth Tour continues&#8230; \u00a0 We headed out of Verona and \u00a0on to rural Buchanan, Virginia. \u00a0 We stopped at the Buchanan Quick Stop \u00a0 (that didn&#8217;t seem all that quick ). \u00a0 A slow country music song <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1110\"><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-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","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=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}