{"id":1477,"date":"2016-01-22T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2016-01-22T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:26:49","slug":"b-ball-reporting-and-average-joe-stumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"B-ball reporting and “average Joe” stumping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still<\/em> catching up on the last couple months…\u00a0 I write columns for our local newspaper, The Bluffton News.<\/em>\u00a0 However in recent months, I’ve turned my attention to sports.\u00a0 I’ve been asked to write the boys varsity basketball stories, not because I’m a Sports Illustrated<\/em> quality sports reporter — but rather because our son Joseph plays on the team and the editor knew I’d be going to most of the away games.\u00a0 This has turned out to be kind of like: Dave Berry writes small town sports.\u00a0 Exhibit A<\/strong> from the lead of a recent article:\u00a0 The boys basketball team from Wapakoneta [“One giant slam dunk for mankind”], Ohio, landed on “Planet Bluffton” Friday, only to fine a band of hostile aliens (read: hostile pirates).\u00a0 And what ensued made the new Star Wars<\/em> movie battles seem, well, tame.\u00a0 When the “planet dust” had settled, Bluffton came out on top: 65 to 55.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wapakoneta is the hometown of famous astronaut Neil Armstrong.\u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 The other thing that’s been good about covering the basketball team is it’s proving helpful to the campaign as well.\u00a0 No, the Bluffton Pirates haven’t officially endorsed the campaign.\u00a0 But rather, while traveling to the away games, I often do some “average Joe” campaign stumping in small towns along the way.\u00a0 That’s right, while Trump is jetting about in his 737 wide body plane,\u00a0 I’m in a decidedly less-wide, 1998 Villager mini-van stopping in Beaverdam, Cairo… on the way to the Delphos-Jefferson game.\u00a0 Which, by the way, Bluffton won — if you didn’t see it on ESPN.\u00a0 Note 3:\u00a0 For more on the campaign’s Ohio Strategy…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still catching up on the last couple months…\u00a0 I write columns for our local newspaper, The Bluffton News.\u00a0 However in recent months, I’ve turned my attention to sports.\u00a0 I’ve been asked to write the boys varsity basketball stories, not because …<\/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-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","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=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}