{"id":1472,"date":"2016-01-16T20:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2016-01-16T20:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T20:27:34","slug":"from-the-ladder-a-wind-campus-mom-press-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"…from the ladder; a “wind campus”; Mom & Pop shops; “Press & Prose”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the last couple months…\u00a0 It’s been a whirlwind of stuff in between house painting, parenting, writing, working on the campaign…\u00a0 We, for instance, have done a number of Facebook “…from the ladder”<\/em><\/strong> segments about such topics as immigration, space travel, abortion, global warming…\u00a0 I note that with the mounting super-charged storms, climate refugees, increasing drought (all from climate change), we in the U.S. could well be viewed as: “climate terrorists.”\u00a0 During this period — appropriate enough —\u00a0 I also interviewed the CEO of “Energy One” in Findlay, Ohio, for a magazine article.\u00a0 The company is building three large wind turbines clustered together in Findlay that will be tied to a “Wind Campus” of businesses.\u00a0 Energy One also envisions school field trips out to the site so students can learn about the dynamics of wind energy “up close,” so to speak…\u00a0 During this time, I also interviewed two small, second-generation business owners (at a local glass company and a local optician).\u00a0 Both businesses were passed on by parents and the optician noted that her customers actually span three family generations.\u00a0 She said this kind of business family lineage has diminished in spades in this country — “…and that’s been sad.”\u00a0 Our position paper on the economy calls for a resurgence of small Mom & Pop stores throughout the country.\u00a0 These small stores, and small family farms, were once the backbone of this country.\u00a0 And they should be again.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 During this time, I talked with a professor at Bluffton University who said her journalism class has a few students who are majoring in creative writing.\u00a0 The professor half smiled and said that she was forever saying “…it doesn’t matter how the air smelled at the time of the event, Mary!”\u00a0 As coincidence would have it, I had majored in journalism in college, and minored in creative writing.\u00a0 This got me to thinking.\u00a0 What about a new newspaper genre?\u00a0 “Press & Prose.”\u00a0 And you could call one of the newspapers: The Creative Chronicle<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 “…Press & Prose for the People.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the last couple months…\u00a0 It’s been a whirlwind of stuff in between house painting, parenting, writing, working on the campaign…\u00a0 We, for instance, have done a number of Facebook “…from the ladder” segments about such topics as …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}