{"id":1460,"date":"2015-11-03T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2015-11-03T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:27:54","slug":"el-nino-shift-home-church-reverse-white-flight-average-joe-low-tech-wonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"El Nino shift; home church; reverse “white flight”; average Joe ‘low-tech’ wonk"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a shift in the El Nino pattern, things will be about 15 degrees warmer than normal in Ohio this next two weeks — which will afford me the opportunity to finish an outside painting job before winter sets in.\u00a0 That’s right.\u00a0 While the other candidates are jetting about the country, I’m trying to squeeze this last house in.\u00a0 And such is the populist lot of “…average Joe the painter<\/a>.”\u00a0 And in between house painting this last week…\u00a0 I co-facilitated a junior high Religious Education class at our church Sunday.\u00a0 Part of it was on: “creating church in one’s home.”\u00a0 Phenomenally, only two kids (out of 15) said they did any kind of joint family prayer at home.\u00a0 A tremendous bellwether, it would seem,\u00a0 for the ongoing march of secular humanism in our society… \u00a0 On Wednesday night I went with a group from Ebenezer Mennonite Church to help serve a meal to youth at Rally Point, in a hardscrabble area of Lima, Ohio.\u00a0 Rally Point is an outreach of Youth for Christ.\u00a0 The director, Jared Diller, moved his family into this area several years ago to be “part of the solution.”\u00a0 Our platform calls for inspiring some in suburban and small town America to move back into our decaying cities to reverse “white flight” and help with real systemic, lasting change.\u00a0 [We moved our family into a hardscrabble area of Cleveland a number of years ago to do the same<\/a>.]\u00a0 In addition, our platform calls for a “Marshall Plan” to rebuild and revitalize these areas…\u00a0 I also spent part of the week putting some finishing touches on our\u00a0 website.\u00a0 While other candidates have have Silicon Valley high-tech wonks to do the layout, photos, graphics, and such; well, it’s me and our part-time campaign staffer Elizabeth doing the whole thing.\u00a0 [I write the copy myself as well.]\u00a0 And thus is the lot of a populist “average Joe” presidential candidate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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