{"id":1502,"date":"2016-04-05T00:37:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2016-04-05T00:42:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:42:01","slug":"1502","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"local campaigning, NFL footballs, Bulldogs&#8230; Main Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While other presidential candidates are jetting from state to state across the country for rallies, media spots, and such; I&#8217;ve zeroed in on Northwest, Ohio, where I&#8217;m driving my work van around about a 75-mile radius to campaign at nights and on the weekends.\u00a0 (And we&#8217;re asking our supporters to do the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!help-us\/c11en\">same in their locales<\/a>.)\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been meeting with people on the streets of such towns as Ada (where they make the NFL footballs), Coldwater (where there&#8217;s this great &#8220;Grill on Main&#8221; restaurant), Columbus Grove (home of the Bulldogs), Beaverdam (where, well, there&#8217;s got to be <em>something<\/em>), Gomer (where everyone says: &#8220;shazzaam&#8221; &#8212; my spell check is telling me that&#8217;s not a word), Crestview, Ottoville, Jenera&#8230;\u00a0 When I&#8217;m not passing out campaign cards, I&#8217;ve been posting them, and flyers, on store, post office, town square&#8230; bulletin boards.\u00a0 My answer to the SuperPAC million dollar TV advertising, and so on.\u00a0 Call it a hunch.\u00a0<strong> Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 And unlike the &#8220;other guys,&#8221; this last weekend I actually had to stay home at our house on Main St., literally, (How&#8217;s that for populist?) because my wife wanted me to get the garden ready out back for planting.\u00a0 Well, when you&#8217;re an &#8220;average Joe&#8221; candidate&#8230;\u00a0<strong> Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 For more about the &#8216;almost First Family&#8217;s&#8217; life on Main Street, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!first-family\/c1gaz\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While other presidential candidates are jetting from state to state across the country for rallies, media spots, and such; I&#8217;ve zeroed in on Northwest, Ohio, where I&#8217;m driving my work van around about a 75-mile radius to campaign at nights <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1502\"><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-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","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=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}