{"id":1270,"date":"2011-12-19T19:44:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T19:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2011-12-19T19:44:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T19:44:50","slug":"average-joe-on-main-street-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Average Joe on Main Street USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the weekend moving into our new home on Main Street in Bluffton, Ohio (pop. 3,875).\u00a0 That&#8217;s right,<strong> &#8220;Average Joe on Main Street USA.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong> Doesn&#8217;t get much more populist than that!\u00a0 And we don&#8217;t even plan these things, the house was just available.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a modest house, small garden in the back.\u00a0 We&#8217;re doing the decor in &#8217;50s stuff, complete with an old phonograph.\u00a0 In fact, I told the <em><strong>Alliance (OH) News<\/strong><\/em> that our platform asks the American public to consider going back to the &#8217;50s in many respects.\u00a0 That is, a time when the pace of life was slower, neighbors knew neighbors, the streets were safe for kids, and Norman Rockwell paintings were big, <em>real<\/em> big.\u00a0\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Bumper sticker sighting in Bluffton:\u00a0<strong> &#8220;Astronomy is Looking Up.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the weekend moving into our new home on Main Street in Bluffton, Ohio (pop. 3,875).\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, &#8220;Average Joe on Main Street USA.&#8221;\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t get much more populist than that!\u00a0 And we don&#8217;t even plan these things, the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1270\"><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-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","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=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}