{"id":1339,"date":"2012-04-03T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T15:16:37","slug":"spark-plugs-tail-lights-abc-news-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"spark plugs, tail lights, ABC News, smoking…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the last couple weeks (blog was down)…\u00a0 We launched on our next tour, heading south in our\u00a01978 motorhome.\u00a0 A couple spark plug wires shook loose around Cincinnati and we were cresting hills on I-75 at\u00a040\u00a0mph, with everyone leaning forward…\u00a0 Then the tail lights went on the fritz, but the folks at Sechrest Automotive in Williamstown, KY, took care of that.\u00a0 I gave “Brad” there a campaign card.\u00a0 He said he’d get it blown up and make a yard sign out of it…\u00a0 That afternoon, we stopped at a YMCA just outside of Lexington, Kentucky.\u00a0 The local ABC News affiliate was doing some filming at an anti-smoking display they had set up here this day.\u00a0 I told the reporter I was running for president and had some views on smoking.\u00a0 He said great, and did an interview.\u00a0 (And we continute to do this all without an advance staff.)\u00a0 Among a number of things, I said I was onboard with the new Surgeon General allowance for graphic pictures (black lungs, people with emphysima…) that will be included on the sides of cigarette packs this year.\u00a0 Only 20% of people now smoke in this country because, in part, because of agressive advertising against it.\u00a0 Smoking leads to so<\/em> many attendant health problems in this country, including a form of slow suicide.\u00a0 That is everytime someone lights up, it’s like putting a little tiny gun with a little tiny bullet in one’s mouth.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Our healthcare platform is heavy on prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the last couple weeks (blog was down)…\u00a0 We launched on our next tour, heading south in our\u00a01978 motorhome.\u00a0 A couple spark plug wires shook loose around Cincinnati and we were cresting hills on I-75 at\u00a040\u00a0mph, with everyone …<\/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-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","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=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}