{"id":1226,"date":"2011-09-30T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2011-09-30T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T17:00:06","slug":"hey-buddy-a-66-coronet-norman-rockwell-canada-kobejoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"“Hey buddy…”, a ’66 Coronet, Norman Rockwell, Canada, Kobe\/Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Catching up on the week…\u00a0 Our son Jonathan and I attended a festival in tiny Continental, Ohio, over the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0It was dual purpose.\u00a0 There was a fundraising booth there for his Midget Football team —\u00a0and I did some campaign stumping as well.\u00a0 On the football end, the head coach manned the booth, while Jonathan and I (and other fathers and sons) fanned out into the crowd to sell 50\/50 raffle tickets.\u00a0 My opening line was:\u00a0 “Hey buddy, you look like you played football back in the day…”\u00a0<\/strong> This worked, a lot<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 There was also an old-fashion car “Cruise-in,” and Jonathan and I walked about looking at the cars for a time.\u00a0 One of the cars was a 1966 Dodge Coronet with a slant 6 engine.\u00a0 I told Jonathan I used to have the exact<\/em> same car when I was a teenager.\u00a0 Then I paused and felt: awfully old.\u00a0 We ducked into the Clubhouse Restaurant in downtown Continental where I put a campaign flier on the bulletin board, then Jonathan and I walked about the restaurant looking at art while waiting for our pizza.\u00a0 All the art was Norman Rockwell sports scenes from the 50s.\u00a0 The old cars, the old artwork… tell me somehow this is not just about nostalgia, but about some people desperately wanting to recapture life in a simpler time.\u00a0 I told The Review<\/em> newspaper in Alliance, Ohio, that our platform includes helping move America back to a time when the pace of life was slower, neighbors knew neighbors, small town downtowns were vibrant…\u00a0 I was interviewed on-line by a reporter from a college newspaper in Canada this week.\u00a0 Notice the strategy:\u00a0 During Obama’s candidacy, he went<\/em> to other countries throughout Europe.\u00a0 I, on the other hand — in an attempt to curb global warming — went to Canada, virtually<\/em>.\u00a0 (Our Lear jet was in the shop anyway.)\u00a0 The reporter asked how our administration would undertake U.S.-Canadian relations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For one, I noted that the U.S. and Canada are the world’s largest trading partners.\u00a0 Under our administration, this would shift.\u00a0 I said our administration would robustly push a “Buy American”<\/strong> campaign, including levying high taxes on imports.\u00a0 Hopefully, I continued, Canada would similarily undertake a “Buy Canadian”<\/strong> campaign.\u00a0 Local production for local consumption creates much more community interdependence and cuts down tremendously on shipping — which generates all kinds of global warming gases.\u00a0 At some point, some candidate, somewhere… is going to have to run on\u00a0some hard truths.\u00a0 And, well, I guess that would be me.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 I played basketball with a group of older guys over at Bluffton University Thursday.\u00a0 I made a couple jumpers, had some good assists… I just read where Kobe Bryant is going to a European League team.\u00a0 I’ve thought about that too, but you know, the campaign and everything…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the week…\u00a0 Our son Jonathan and I attended a festival in tiny Continental, Ohio, over the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0It was dual purpose.\u00a0 There was a fundraising booth there for his Midget Football team —\u00a0and I did some campaign stumping …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}