{"id":1494,"date":"2016-04-04T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2016-04-04T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:07:08","slug":"autism-pastorate-wind-adoption-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"autism, pastorate, wind, adoption, outreach&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple months, I&#8217;ve written a number of stories for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!lizs-magazine\/c1gfx\">wife&#8217;s magazines<\/a>.\u00a0 Just a few of them include:\u00a0 I did a story about a youth who has autism and uses art therapy, in a pretty phenomenal way, in order to help express himself and communicate with others.\u00a0 I also did a story on a local man who gave up pursuing a professional baseball career because he said he felt God calling him to be a pastor.\u00a0 The title:\u00a0<strong><em> Batter Up! &#8230;for God.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>For a &#8220;green living&#8221; section, I did an article on a new &#8220;Wind Campus&#8221; going up in Findlay, Ohio.\u00a0 It highlighted a new industrial park that is going in, with each business being tied electrically to wind turbines.\u00a0 In addition, I did a quite poignant story about a local couple who adopted the baby of a teenage girl who was in &#8220;crisis pregnancy.&#8221;\u00a0 I also did a story on Rally Point, which is a Youth For Christ outreach program to kids living in quite a rough, hardscrabble area of Lima, Ohio.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Each of these stories express some of the ethos, to one degree or another, of our campaign.\u00a0 And the overarching essence is that it is, for the most part, about local people rolling up their sleeves to make a difference locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple months, I&#8217;ve written a number of stories for my wife&#8217;s magazines.\u00a0 Just a few of them include:\u00a0 I did a story about a youth who has autism and uses art therapy, in a pretty phenomenal way, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1494\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","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=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}