{"id":1208,"date":"2011-09-16T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2011-09-16T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T18:14:00","slug":"football-kieferville-and-a-pure-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"football, Kieferville and a &#8216;Pure&#8217; sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took our sons Joseph and Jonathan to a football practice in North Creek, Ohio, last night. Joseph played split end and had a couple nice catches. Jonathan, the youngest one, was like a little Brian Uhrlacher (Bear&#8217;s middle linebacker) on defense. Overall, the practice was like something out of a Norman Rockwell rural gridiron scene. These young kids on an open grassy field all lost in the moment. It was absolutely heartwarming&#8230; On the way back, I did some campaigning. I stopped in Kieferville (pop. 100 and an abandoned gas station in the shadows of a faded, white oval &#8220;Pure&#8221; sign.) I put a campaign card in the window of the station, not to necessarily carry the Election, but rather as more of silent tribute to a time in America where things were slower, and more wholesome. (Read: &#8216;Pure&#8217;) Like the football scene we&#8217;d just left.<a href=\"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/img_01972.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1214\" title=\"IMG_0197\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/img_01972.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took our sons Joseph and Jonathan to a football practice in North Creek, Ohio, last night. Joseph played split end and had a couple nice catches. Jonathan, the youngest one, was like a little Brian Uhrlacher (Bear&#8217;s middle linebacker) <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1208\"><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-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","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=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}