{"id":1963,"date":"2019-08-02T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2019-08-02T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:23:00","slug":"visiting-those-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"Visiting those in prison&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trainer-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trainer-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trainer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trainer.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way back from my kid&#8217;s soccer game in Archbold, Ohio, I stopped at the McDonald&#8217;s in Defiance, Ohio, to do a little &#8220;populist stumping.&#8221;  While passing out campaign cards, I got in a conversation with this guy, Jay Solether.  He&#8217;s a personal trainer, was on his way to a Revival Rally in Defiance, and told me he&#8217;s also been part of the Bill Glass Prison Ministry.  (Glass, who just passed away, was a well-known,Cleveland Browns lineman during the &#8217;60s, who parlayed his notoriety into creating a nationwide prison ministry.)  Solether&#8217;s enthusiasm for his faith was palpable.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  I also got in a conversation with a couple older gentlemen, one of whom said that while he&#8217;s a Democrat, he didn&#8217;t vote in the last election.  He said everything was getting so crazy in the country he didn&#8217;t feel much like participating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way back from my kid&#8217;s soccer game in Archbold, Ohio, I stopped at the McDonald&#8217;s in Defiance, Ohio, to do a little &#8220;populist stumping.&#8221; While passing out campaign cards, I got in a conversation with this guy, Jay <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1963\"><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-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","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=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}