{"id":1653,"date":"2017-10-05T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2017-10-05T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T19:49:12","slug":"joe-the-painter-aerobics-for-the-mind-outreach-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Joe the Painter; aerobics for the mind; outreach; soccer…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In between a number of house painting jobs recently (see: Joe the Painter<\/a>), I’ve also been writing yet more freelance articles for our local newspapers on subjects that, interestingly enough, tie in with various parts of our platform.\u00a0 For instance, I recently interviewed a former Ashland University literary professor who is now running an innovative used bookstore in downtown Bluffton.\u00a0 She said she was dismayed at the number of youth these days who, outside of school, have never completed reading a book.\u00a0 It’s my contention (as well as a number of researchers) that, say, Xfinity TV, constantly streaming internet videos, and so on, leave little to the imagination.\u00a0 What’s more, this could well lead to, in essence, “brain atrophy.”\u00a0 Where when reading you have to picture characters, imagery, plot lines…\u00a0 This, in essence, is like “brain aerobics.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For more on our position on education, see…<\/a>\u00a0 I also did an article on the Youth For Christ outreach in a hardscrabble neighborhood of nearby Lima, Ohio.\u00a0 Director Jared Diller told me that in the midst of the poverty and unsafe neighborhood there, Rally Point provides a safe haven.\u00a0 Some 40 volunteers from all over the county help there.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 We spent five years in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, working with Catholic Workers there to make a difference in the neighborhood.\u00a0 See…<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 And when I’m not painting, writing, researching, updating our website… I’m attending our kid Jonathan’s high school soccer matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In between a number of house painting jobs recently (see: Joe the Painter), I’ve also been writing yet more freelance articles for our local newspapers on subjects that, interestingly enough, tie in with various parts of our platform.\u00a0 For instance, …<\/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-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}