{"id":154,"date":"2004-10-21T10:24:34","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T10:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=147"},"modified":"2004-10-21T10:24:34","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T10:24:34","slug":"101604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"10\/16\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont.<\/strong><\/em>   A front page article in <em>The Jeffersonian <\/em>out of Cambridge, Ohio this week noted I said in this fast paced society of ours, youth are often being shorted emotionally, with both parents off working and otherwise just rushing about.  Youth, in turn, are being &#8216;parented,&#8217; if you will, by television, computers, and so on.  Being a former counselor, I know when youth get shorted emotionally, they grow up angry (and turn to violence).  They grow up empty (and turn to drugs, sex, compulsive work habits).  Just look around society&#8230;  In an attempt to spend some quality time with my children today back in Bluffton, I took them to the Senior Center annual Spelling Bee Contest, where they had a wonderful time  &#8212; and I developed some empathy for former Vice-President Dan Quayle.  (Remember when he mispelled: &#8220;potato&#8221;?)  Well, sitting on the sidelines &#8212; without the aid of a &#8216;spell check&#8217; &#8212; I mispelled, oh, more than a few words.  You&#8217;d think, in fashion or out, I could at least spell: &#8220;corduroy&#8221;.  <em>Boy!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. A front page article in The Jeffersonian out of Cambridge, Ohio this week noted I said in this fast paced society of ours, youth are often being shorted emotionally, with both parents off working and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=154\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}