{"id":2029,"date":"2020-01-16T04:05:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2020-01-16T04:05:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:05:27","slug":"bbq-backbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"BBQ backbone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gibson-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gibson-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gibson-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gibson-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gibson-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gibson.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My son had an away basketball game in Convoy, Ohio, the other night, so I went a bit early to stump.  (It&#8217;s a low budget campaign, and I often try to combine these trips. Anyway&#8230;)  This night I, in ad hoc fashion, found myself doing a bit of campaigning in Gibson&#8217;s Barnyard BBQ Restaurant.  I passed on a campaign card to owner Thomas Gibson who, in turn, said he was &#8220;a politician too.&#8221;  He&#8217;s a township trustee in the area.  An affable sort, Mr. Gibson takes pride in his &#8220;family restaurant,&#8221; and in the work he&#8217;s doing for the township as well.  People like him are the ones who form the <em>real<\/em> backbone of this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son had an away basketball game in Convoy, Ohio, the other night, so I went a bit early to stump. (It&#8217;s a low budget campaign, and I often try to combine these trips. Anyway&#8230;) This night I, in ad <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2029\"><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-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}