{"id":146,"date":"2004-10-12T19:17:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=139"},"modified":"2004-10-12T19:17:27","modified_gmt":"2004-10-12T19:17:27","slug":"10904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"10\/9\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. <\/strong><\/em> At the Algonquin Festival in Petersburg, Ohio, today, story teller Ralph Borror did an imitation of Abraham Lincoln. “Abe” said a defining moment for him came as a youth when he happened upon a Slave Auction in New Orleans where a brother and sister were sold — to two seperate people. “I realized they’d probably never see each other again. And right there I vowed I’d do everything I could to end slavery,” “Abe” said. And he did… Our platform points out, however, that there are still many who are “slaves” to inner city poverty cycles. And we ask those doing well out in the suburbs to slow down, cut back and roll up their sleeves to help the people in the inner city in a much more dynamic way. While doing some research on the Southside of Chicago several years ago, for instance, we saw many little children trying to dodge drugs, bullets and hunger, every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. At the Algonquin Festival in Petersburg, Ohio, today, story teller Ralph Borror did an imitation of Abraham Lincoln. “Abe” said a defining moment for him came as a youth when he happened upon a Slave …<\/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-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}