{"id":1120,"date":"2011-04-23T02:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=593"},"modified":"2011-04-23T02:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T02:59:42","slug":"an-anniversary-2-als-and-well-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"an anniversary, 2 Als and, well, Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got to the Gulf Coast on the Florida panhandle on the night of the anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon<\/strong> oil rig explosion. \u00a0 Vigils were being held along the coast from Florida to Louisiana. \u00a0 Earlier in the day, Florida Governor Scott was hop-scotching the panhandle eating seafood and saying the area was again safe for tourists. \u00a0 Meanwhile, National Geographic<\/em> reported after the spill that while the surface of the water may appear clean, down below an oil plume the size of Manhattan was discovered, along with any number of other plumes. \u00a0 And the phyto-plankton, zoo-plankton and larvae — all rudimentary Gulf eco-building blocks — were in major trouble… \u00a0 In Carabella, Florida, I stumped at the 2 Als Cafe<\/strong>. \u00a0 A father and son both named (that’s right) Al own it. \u00a0 An active member of the Tea Party<\/strong>, who is also a shrimper here, approached me in the cafe and said he didn’t see anyone in the current field of possible Republican presidential candidates being “…electable against Obama.” \u00a0 (By the way, that’s where I come in.) \u00a0 After a bit of general campaign banter at the table that appeared to be the “brain trust” of Carabella, I found myself in a one-on-one conversation with Gene Holstrom, who has an “Old Gospel Station”<\/strong> on the Internet. It is broadcast worldwide. \u00a0 Holstrom, 87, fought in WWII. \u00a0 He said at one point back then he prayed to have God show him just a little bit of what Hell was like. \u00a0 Shortly after, his tank was hit and he ran from it on fire. \u00a0 After running what seemed to be the equivalent of the length of a football field, he dove into a swamp to put the flames out. \u00a0 “That was enough of an example of Hell for me,” he smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got to the Gulf Coast on the Florida panhandle on the night of the anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig explosion. \u00a0 Vigils were being held along the coast from Florida to Louisiana. \u00a0 Earlier in the …<\/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-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","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=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}