{"id":1232,"date":"2011-10-12T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2011-10-12T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:18:57","slug":"peace-keepers-shay-locomotive-beef-jerky-joe-the-plumber-rotation-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"Peace Keepers, Shay Locomotive, beef jerky, Joe the plumber, ‘rotation formation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the last week…\u00a0 I talked with Bluffton College Education Professor Paul Weaver.\u00a0 Every year he goes down to the country of Colombia as part of a Christian Peace Keeper Team<\/strong>.\u00a0 Amidst the violence there, he and other team members serve as human shields for children walking to school, for rural villagers threatened with drug cartel attacks, and so on.\u00a0 Christian Peace Keepers believe in non-violence and are willing to put their ‘money where their mouth is,’ so to speak.\u00a0 That is, as soldiers are willing to die for war, these Peace Keepers say they are willing to “die for peace.”\u00a0\u00a0 …Our “back road” campaigning in Ohio continues.\u00a0 We stopped in Harrod, Ohio (pop. 493).\u00a0 This is the home of the Shay Steam Locomotive<\/strong>, circa 1905.\u00a0 One is on display on the town green here, and is referred to as the “work horse of her day.”\u00a0 (It was manufactured at the nearby Lima Locomotive Works.)\u00a0 While in Harrod, the owner of the Harrod “Snack Shack” put up a “Joe the Painter” for President<\/em> campaign flier on their bulletin board by the door.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I signed it and added: “GREAT FOOD!”\u00a0<\/strong> Okay, so I just had\u00a0the beef jerky, but it was pretty good…\u00a0 Speaking of “Joe the Painter,” I just read that “Joe the Plumber”<\/strong> has officially announced that he is running for Congress in Ohio’s 9th District.\u00a0 And the “Average Joe Revolution”<\/strong> rolls on, like the Shay Steam Locomotive used to…\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 I filled in as coach for our son Jonathan’s Midget football team in a practice this week.\u00a0 I lined up the offense and defense in a “rotation formation.”\u00a0 That is, after each play the players ‘rotated’ so each boy got a chance to play each position.\u00a0 That meant, at one point, that the kid who regularly plays anonymously in the trenches at center, got a chance to run the ball.\u00a0 You should have seen the smile on his face as he lined up in the backfield.\u00a0 And he gained about 10 yards to boot on a pretty good run…\u00a0 After watching the Republican debate on the economy last night, I couldn’t help but think the “rotation formation” I used with the boys, would be a good idea for the economy.\u00a0 That is, for instance, maybe some of the “suits” on Wall Street (and well dressed politicians for that matter), could ‘rotate’ into some low-paying, mind-numbing assembly line work for a significant amount of time — not a photo-op amount of time.\u00a0 What’s the bet these people would soon (real<\/em> soon) be looking to develop a new kind of economy based on much more human dignity for everyone, like our position paper <\/a>on a “new economy” proposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the last week…\u00a0 I talked with Bluffton College Education Professor Paul Weaver.\u00a0 Every year he goes down to the country of Colombia as part of a Christian Peace Keeper Team.\u00a0 Amidst the violence there, he and other …<\/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-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","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=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}