{"id":1567,"date":"2016-08-29T13:41:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T13:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T13:46:38","slug":"joe-the-mechanic-parent-campaign-staff-painter-journalist-researcher-traveling-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Joe the: mechanic, parent, campaign staff, painter, journalist, researcher, traveling politician&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last month, a couple friends and I have been working on our campaign vehicle.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a 1984 converted Midas Motor Home.\u00a0 The roof had a leak, the carburetor had to be rebuilt, and there needed to be some interior painting.\u00a0 [While<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!campaign-vehicles\/c285\"> not an expert mechanic<\/a> (that&#8217;s why I needed the help), I can do some light stuff.\u00a0 Enough to get some grease under my nails occasionally.]&#8230;\u00a0 During this time, I was also spending time with our kids.\u00a0 Including beating our daughter (who was a recent college conference &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!sports-articles\/c24kj\">Newcomer of the Year<\/a>&#8220;) at a game of one-on-one basketball.\u00a0 But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!joes-sports-hobbies\/c1ce7\">whose<\/a> <em>bragging<\/em>, huh? &#8220;Maybe next year Sarah!&#8221; \u00a0 &#8230;I also worked late nights making phone calls to get electors and filling out Secretary of State papers to be an &#8220;official&#8221; write-in candidate in some states like Ohio (Wouldn&#8217;t that be something if we <em>won<\/em> Ohio?), Minnesota, Montana.\u00a0 Other candidates actually have <em>staffs<\/em> to do this, as they have <em>mechanics<\/em> for their campaign vehicles, and such.\u00a0 Just call me populist &#8212; with a capital <em>P<\/em>&#8230;\u00a0 During this time, I&#8217;ve also been working on a big house painting project (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!making-a-living\/c17zs\">Joe the Painter<\/a>).\u00a0 Wrote an article for our local newspaper about a Mennonite Church mission trip to Ethiopia (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!joe-the-journalist\/c19eq\">Joe the Journalist<\/a>).\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve been doing some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!positions\/ci8x\">ongoing position paper research (26 years and 250,000 cross country miles for the research)<\/a>.\u00a0 In between all this the last monty, I&#8217;ve also been doing some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/#!stream\/c7h3\">stumping locally<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Joe-Schriner\/100009973429310\">Facebook posting<\/a> for my national constituents&#8230;\u00a0 And thus is the lot of a small town, &#8220;average Joe&#8221; independent presidential candidate &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/\"><em>ultimate<\/em> &#8220;outsider&#8221;<\/a> this campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last month, a couple friends and I have been working on our campaign vehicle.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a 1984 converted Midas Motor Home.\u00a0 The roof had a leak, the carburetor had to be rebuilt, and there needed to be some <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1567\"><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-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","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=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}