{"id":1746,"date":"2018-04-19T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2018-04-19T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T14:17:43","slug":"1746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Picking a Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading some of <strong><em>The Available Man (Warren Harding)<\/em><\/strong> today. \u00a0The book noted that in choosing his Cabinet, Harding wanted to &#8220;&#8230;have a popular group of the best minds around him.&#8221; With my Cabinet, I don&#8217;t know so much about &#8220;popular,&#8221; but I would want the &#8220;best minds&#8221; around me &#8212; if those minds were linked to solid spirituality. \u00a0What&#8217;s more, they would need to be &#8220;minds&#8221; in step, not necessarily with the mainstream, but rather in step with doing the right things, period. For instance, &#8220;traditional farmers&#8221; these days are lacing their fields with toxic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizer. \u00a0By extension, we&#8217;re ingesting food with this stuff in it. \u00a0And by further extension, cancer rates are spiking. \u00a0So&#8230; \u00a0My Secretary of Agriculture may well be an obscure, but agriculturally right on track: small organic farmer. \u00a0In fact, see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/agriculture\">position paper on agriculture<\/a> to see this flushed out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading some of The Available Man (Warren Harding) today. \u00a0The book noted that in choosing his Cabinet, Harding wanted to &#8220;&#8230;have a popular group of the best minds around him.&#8221; With my Cabinet, I don&#8217;t know so much <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1746\"><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-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","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=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}