{"id":1572,"date":"2016-09-30T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2016-09-30T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:24:21","slug":"local-news-all-things-possible-debating-and-buckeye-boasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"local news, ‘all things possible,’ debating… and Buckeye Boasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the month of September, I was interviewed for a TV news piece with the local Fox News<\/strong> <\/em>affiliate WLIO<\/strong>.\u00a0 The reporter asked me what my chances were.\u00a0 I responded with Ohio’s state motto:\u00a0 “All things are possible with God<\/em><\/strong>.”\u00a0 He smiled.\u00a0 The campaign was also featured in a front page article in the Lima News<\/em>.\u00a0 I told this reporter that my wife and I were running as your \u00a0“typical concerned Midwestern parents” who were ‘concerned’ about\u00a0ever increasing\u00a0abortion numbers, mounting terrorism, seemingly never ending war now, violence in our cities, dire poverty worldwide…\u00a0 “We’re not only concerned about our<\/em> kids, we’re concerned about everybody’s<\/em> kids,” I said…\u00a0 During this time, I also finished a big house painting project, wrote some articles for our local paper — then packed up and moved to Steubenville, Ohio, where our family will start the next chapter of our lives.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Last night I did a Blog Talk Radio<\/strong> debate with American Solidarity Party presidential candidate Mark Maturen.\u00a0 We were on the same page with most issues.\u00a0 The only major point of contention was, well:\u00a0 He’s a University of Michigan fan and I am, of course, an Ohio State fan!\u00a0 Good it was on radio from separate\u00a0locations, or I’m sure it would have come to blows.\u00a0 LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the month of September, I was interviewed for a TV news piece with the local Fox News affiliate WLIO.\u00a0 The reporter asked me what my chances were.\u00a0 I responded with Ohio’s state motto:\u00a0 “All things are possible with God.”\u00a0 …<\/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-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","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=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}