{"id":1579,"date":"2016-10-22T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:58:07","slug":"painting-cockeyed-optimist-modesty-of-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"painting, “cockeyed optimist,” modesty (of dress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have started another exterior house painting project (hoping to complete it before election day — because I could be quite busy<\/em> after that).\u00a0 After giving a talk at Oberlin College a number of years ago, a professor there referred to me as a “cock-eyed optimist.”\u00a0 Apt.\u00a0 I also continue to stump on Ohio’s back roads every chance I can.\u00a0 Some vignettes:\u00a0 At a McDonald’s in Gallion, Ohio (I got the sausage McMuffin), I approached a table of older women.\u00a0 After passing out some campaign cards, one of the women said she was concerned about how liberal everything was getting.\u00a0 She had gone to Tiffin University back in the 1950s where “…cheerleader skirts were below the knees.”\u00a0 Quaint?\u00a0 Nostalgic?\u00a0 Or would we do well to go back to that kind of modesty in dress?\u00a0 I am running as a “concerned Midwestern parent” who thinks the latter might not be such a bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have started another exterior house painting project (hoping to complete it before election day — because I could be quite busy after that).\u00a0 After giving a talk at Oberlin College a number of years ago, a professor there referred to …<\/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-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","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=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}