{"id":1112,"date":"2010-11-09T03:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T03:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=552"},"modified":"2010-11-09T03:40:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T03:40:57","slug":"americas-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"America’s hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"

We finished our Virginia Commonwealth Tour<\/em> \u00a0 and headed into North Carolina. \u00a0 First stop: \u00a0 “America’s hometown.”<\/strong> \u00a0 Or, well, that’s how it’s billed in Mount Airy, North Carolina. \u00a0 This is the small town where Andy Griffith grew up. \u00a0 This is the small town that inspired the Andy Griffith Show’s Mayberry.<\/em> \u00a0 Now while for the most part, we’ve raised our children without television. \u00a0 We have, in recent years, allowed them to watch some episodes of the Andy Griffith Show, to their delight I might add. \u00a0 So the stop in ‘Mayberry’ was going to be a big<\/em> \u00a0 thing for them. \u00a0 Funny, crossing into the town limits, I actually think the kids thought the town was going to be in black and white. \u00a0 (By the way, it isn’t. \u00a0 Which, ok I’ll admit it, was a little disappointing even for me.) \u00a0 Our first stop was Opie’s Candy Shop<\/em> \u00a0 downtown. \u00a0 We got a half pound of mix and match chocolates for three bucks. \u00a0 As with the black and white thing, you also always want Opie to remain, well, Opie. \u00a0 But time inevitably marches on and Opie aka Ron Howard was recently featured on the cover of an AARP Magazine<\/em>. \u00a0 If that doesn’t burst your nostalgic bubble… \u00a0 Anyway, it was a nice afternoon and a lot of tourists slowly meandered about the downtown taking in ‘everything Mayberry.’ \u00a0 I said to the candy store owner that I couldn’t help but think a lot of these people would really like the country to go back to Mayberry. \u00a0 She agreed. \u00a0 “It’s just getting from here to there,” I mused. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I just read an article about how “medical marijuana” is catching on in a good number of states. \u00a0 What’s more, it’s questionable how much is really being prescribed for, say, pain; and how much of it is really being prescribed for: pleasure. \u00a0 Does anyone actually think medical marijuana would fly in Mayberry<\/em>? \u00a0 that was an era when right from wrong seemed a lot more distinguishable. \u00a0 Can I get an amen<\/em>! \u00a0 Or rather, can I get a shazaaam<\/em>! \u00a0 \u00a0 (My spell check is telling me that’s a misspelling. \u00a0 But I’m pretty sure that’s how Gomer spelled it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We finished our Virginia Commonwealth Tour \u00a0 and headed into North Carolina. \u00a0 First stop: \u00a0 “America’s hometown.” \u00a0 Or, well, that’s how it’s billed in Mount Airy, North Carolina. \u00a0 This is the small town where Andy Griffith grew …<\/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-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","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=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}