{"id":127,"date":"2004-09-09T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-09-09T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T09:07:28","slug":"9904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"9\/9\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont.<\/em><\/strong>  Traveled to Mt. Vernon, Ohio yesterday where we attended a Ohio Department of Natural Resources seminar.  In an excellent presentation, ODNR officer Mike Miller said the more &#8220;diverse&#8221; the eco-system, the more stable it is.  However, he said current levels of farm herbacides and pesticides are significanltly hurting wildlife populations and throwing eco-system stability off.  He said, for instance, the frog population along the banks of the Kokosing River here has dropped dramatically in recent years.  We then headed further south on Rte. 13, stopping at the Hufford General Store in tiny Uttica, Ohio.  It has been family owned and operated for 45 years.  Our platform asks people to stridently support these local &#8220;mom &amp; pop&#8221; stores in downtown districts (decentralism) &#8212; so they aren&#8217;t run out of business by the &#8220;big box&#8221; stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Traveled to Mt. Vernon, Ohio yesterday where we attended a Ohio Department of Natural Resources seminar. In an excellent presentation, ODNR officer Mike Miller said the more &#8220;diverse&#8221; the eco-system, the more stable it is. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=127\"><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-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","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=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}