{"id":2035,"date":"2020-01-18T05:21:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T05:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2020-01-18T05:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T05:21:56","slug":"middle-point-stumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Middle-Point stumping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/firehouse-pizza-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/firehouse-pizza-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/firehouse-pizza-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/firehouse-pizza.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While Democratic candidates are stumping in Iowa, I headed to Middle-Point, Ohio.  Call it a hunch.  While passing out campaign cards in the Fire House Pizza &amp; Carry Out, one woman said she was impressed I was stumping in, of all places, her little hometown. I said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stumping\">I stump all over<\/a>. She also said that Middle-Point isn&#8217;t the center of Ohio, but rather it is the geographic &#8220;middle-point&#8221; between Chicago and Pittsburgh on the railroad line.  She also explained that the volunteer firefighters in the village were also volunteering all kinds of time to build a new firehouse there.  <strong>Note: <\/strong> I picked up a local newspaper and read the high school students in the area had been involved with a month-long fundraising initiative to help outreach organizations involved with impacting human trafficking.  Highly commendable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Democratic candidates are stumping in Iowa, I headed to Middle-Point, Ohio. Call it a hunch. While passing out campaign cards in the Fire House Pizza &amp; Carry Out, one woman said she was impressed I was stumping in, of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2035\"><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-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","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=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}