{"id":161,"date":"2004-10-23T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=154"},"modified":"2004-10-23T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2004-10-23T13:51:10","slug":"102304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"10\/23\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. <\/strong><\/em>Last night our kids, and some of the other neighborhood kids, raked a big, and I mean big<\/em>, pile of leaves. Then for about an hour, we developed what I’m sure will become a new Olympic sport someday: Leaf Diving!… Today, a front page story about the campaign appeared in the Cleveland Catholic Diocese Universe Bulletin <\/em>newspaper. Editor Dennis Sadowsky wrote that we have extensively traveled the country looking for people living out the Gospel message, then carry their stories with us. Which we do. Sadowsky noted that one of those stories is that of a family we met in Lisbon, Ohio recently who practice: “Apostolic Farming.” The children (eight of them) are being raised on the land, they grow organically with extreme respect for the environment… and offer everything they do on the farm as a “prayer.” While you can’t necessarily legislate this, you can talk about it with the hopes that other people (on a grassroots level) try it as well. And then who knows how far it will ripple out from there. (During a talk at Toledo University for this campaign, I said each time someone picks up on an idea we carry, “it’s as if we get a policy enacted even before I get to D.C. So, in effect, I’m sort of the president now.” They all smiled, politely. And my wife, Liz, enjoined: “It’s a happy little world you live in, isn’t it?”) And on we go…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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